Ziggy Marley

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

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.

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

There's more to life than physical and material.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

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.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

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

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 don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

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.

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

Love is more than one thing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm always in love.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

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

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

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