Quotes from Ziggy Marley

I go running. I go into nature. I really alleviate lot of emotional stress, any kind of stress I'm going through - exercise is my favorite medicine.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

Success to me does not mean money.

There's more to life than physical and material.

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.

The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

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

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.

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

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.

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.

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

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

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.

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.

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.

A record is a message, timeless.

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

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.

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