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

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Music must never be forgotten, it’s like a fountain that keeps on flowing.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

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?

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.

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.

I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.

When a man tells you, you’re too good for him, believe him.

Death I believe has many forms. It is a shapeshifter. But amongst all the forms it has, love is my favorite.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.