Quotes from Ziggy Marley

Music is a unifying force.

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.

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

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

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

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

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

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

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.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

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'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.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.