I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Everyone's trying to reach the top. Tell me how far is it from the bottom.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position

I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn’t exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

You have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.