If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.