Ziggy Marley Quotes

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.