Usain Bolt Quotes

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

Bob Marley - yeah, I've always loved his stuff.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

I think there's always been interest in Bob Marley.

Someone like a Bob Marley - he was singing Scripture.

If I could go back in time and see anyone perform, it would have to be Bob Marley.

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage.

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

The Marley name resonates all around the world.

You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics painted on walls, and you realise he has this almost religious significance to the underclass of the world. He's a guy born in a hut with no bed, and now he's probably the most listened-to artist in the world. It's fascinating.

When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a lot of people, but it was basically childhood memory.

Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.

I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn't until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.

I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.

I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.

I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.

I spent some time with Bob Marley and I have to say that was like walking with a god on earth.

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.