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.

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

An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it?

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare.