The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

Every day you learn something new.

I sing a lot about love.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.