Ziggy Marley

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

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

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

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

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.

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 want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

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.

I am a leader, so 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.

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

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

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.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of 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.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I've never read one book about my father.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

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 the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

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.

Children are not a burden.

There's more to life than physical and material.

The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

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

Nobody owns me or my music.

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.

The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

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 make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

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

It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.

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

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

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

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.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

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

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

People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.

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

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.

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

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

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.

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.

Success to me does not mean money.

I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

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.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

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.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

If you keep hiding your true self your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself then life becomes vibrant again.

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.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

Music is a unifying force.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

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

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

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.

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.

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'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

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.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

A record is a message, timeless.

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.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

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'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.

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

We still have to evolve thats how were created were created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in each individual must evolve themselves spiritually and consciously.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.