I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

Some people love their teddies more than the humans because dep inside they know, that they are anyway better than humans.

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

You can drink too much tea.

Happy Easter everyone Jesus dies comes back from the dead and we get chocolate eggs. Its like turn down service from God.

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Leaders must develop a lower threshold for alibis and become better communicators and enforcers of what they want done. Holding people accountable to high standards and results is nothing to apologize for. Failing to stretch them to their potential is.

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

Grace destroys entitlement.

The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.

I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.

Be honest, be kind, and share the love.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.