I think when you are a cool guy but also a hot guy, that makes you even more sexy.

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

I think on stage theres a side of me that comes out thats very fierce and confident.

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

If you give into hate, you'll destroy yourself. Hate doesn't help anything.

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

We all live in fear of getting blocked no matter what kind of art we're trying to do. It happens all the time, but I prefer to think of it as a bad day.

To me, what's sexy is when you look like you're having a good time. That, and when you look effortless and have messy hair.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.