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"Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that."
"Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage."
"No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now."
"I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me."
"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
"I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people."
"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right."
"Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people."
"As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music."
"The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community."
"If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true"
"I'm my own psychologist."
"People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea."
"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."
"In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual."
"The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message."
"Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not."
"Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it."
"I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations."