Quotes from Ziggy Marley

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

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

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

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.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.

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

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

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.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

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

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.

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.

I run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel.

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 am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

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

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.

Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.