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" This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened. "

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" I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way. "

" Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really. "

" I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. "

" No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. "

" I've never read one book about my father. "

" I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. "

" I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. "

" I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are. "

" There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. "

" The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon. "

" I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow. "

" I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection. "

" Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource. "

" Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything. "

" I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it. "

" A record is a message, timeless. "

" URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages. "

" Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems. "

" Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people. "

" People have to know there is more to living than physical things. "

" I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy. "

" My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. "

" If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS. "

" God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone. "

" I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing. "

" I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right. "

" I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am. "

" I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it. "

" I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone. "

" Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted. "