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"The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was."
"Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though."
"My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament."
"My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this."
"I've never read one book about my father."
"Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much."
"Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really."
"My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world."
"My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods."
"My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that."
"My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist."
"Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself."
"People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that."
"I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities."
"The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world."
"I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God."
"My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more."
"My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful."
"My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family."
"Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled."
