I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

I feel like I have things to say. And that's what I'm looking forward to.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

I like music when it makes you feel.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.

On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'

The world still hasn't seen the best of Sean Paul.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.