Ziggy Marley's Quotes

I like Flea, I like him as a musician.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

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

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.