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.
— Ziggy Marley
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.
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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 political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
Love is more than one thing.
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.
If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.
I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
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 think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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.
I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
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.
There's more to life than physical and material.
The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
I've tried body surfing. It's nice.
I'm always in love.
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
I like Flea, I like him as a musician.
I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
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.
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.
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
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.
My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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.
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.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
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 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 like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
