“I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.”

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.

What inspires me is the universe.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It’s the ability to love each other. That’s the only solution I see.

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me. I don’t fight the universe.

Love is more than one thing.

I’ve never read one book about my father.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn’t a snob. He wasn’t a purist.

Some of my songs I don’t do on tour because they don’t work well live.

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that’s genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Success to me does not mean money.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I am the messenger of my ancestors.