I've always felt acting is a part of music.

No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.

I'm a Canadian Jamaican. For me, I carry my Jamaican element into my music in my more recent releases.

Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

To me, the creative inspiration is endless and coming in all sorts of different directions at all times.

Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.