“When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.”

Everyone’s trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right.

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body. Then you ain’t gon’ feel it.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

Music is in me.

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

It’s not the one-half that’s never been told; it’s the three-quarters.

I man don’t come red, I come Black

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

My philosophy is: if you don’t bear a cross, you can’t wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

Music is a science, it heals depression.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

I don’t want the national award… I seriously do not need any such thing. I would only want the audience to go and watch the film once and that will be more than enough for me. Once everybody should see the movie and say it is a good watch.

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don’t act at all. I think that to feel the character’s pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

I think if you’re talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you’re fine, because you can’t predict the rest. You also can’t predict the audience’s reaction.

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I’m not into all that.

If you don’t come from film family, it takes time for people to register you. When you don’t come from film family, the connection with the audience takes time to build up; it happens eventually.

Fame is directly related to the kind of support you have from an audience and the love and support I have from audience is so immense and so huge, that the percentage of negativity is so small compared to that that it would be very easy for it to lose itself.