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

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.

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.

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.