“Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.”

Photographs bring back the memories.

The last thing my father told me was: ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.

It’s important to make sure you move your body every day. 

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

Love is my religion.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Reading is an essential tool to keep the mind sharp and the imagination running wild & free.

I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It’s part of our culture.

Everywhere you go, my love will follow.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin’. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

The soul is healed by being with children.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.