"Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live."
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"I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman."
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"Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet."
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"My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation."
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"I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play."
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"My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist."
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"My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy."
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"Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen."
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"If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS."
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"Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to."
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"It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be."
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"I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas."
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"I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas."
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"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."
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"Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live."
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"I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music."
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