Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

I sing a lot about love.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Every day you learn something new.

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

With Ciel and with Rex, I said 'no epidural.' I recovered, I was walking right after I had them, just did a lot of praying all through my pregnancy that they would be healthy and my deliveries would go without a problem. I was really blessed.

Know that deep inside, you are resilient, brave and so much stronger and more powerful than your fears.

There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Starve your distractions feed your focus.

We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the inheritance of their children. Are we going to pass down liberty or deficits? And that's really what this movement is about.

After a performance, I met the man who would later be my acting coach who helped me get into my acting conservatory. It was apparent to me that there were many others who were in support of me becoming an actor and making a name for myself. I am forever grateful to those teachers and mentors who instead of saying, 'Why you?' said, 'Why not you?'

A real gimlet is half gin and half Roses lime juice and nothing else.

That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in lead roles. Lisa McCune in 'Blood Brothers' and Claudia Karvan in 'Spirited' and then Susie Porter in 'Sisters of War.' They've been working, and they've got good lives around them as well.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.