Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

You can get it if you really want

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

It takes a year to be collectively known as "intelligent" but it takes a lifetime to be distinguished as "wise

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Movies are different from real life.

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70′s Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.