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

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.

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.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.