“Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.”

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.

I don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

What the Rastaman represents is positivity.

It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.

I started making my own beats because I just couldn’t afford to pay for the other ones.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.

We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.

I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake.