66 Quotes by Sean Paul

Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through or a purpose of an artist saying something to the world. People usually don’t get the messages because of the partying.

Every time you think a negative thought, it’s one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can’t be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

I got the right temperature for shelter you from the storm.

My flow follows sometimes what’s going on in the hip-hop industry even though I’m speaking Jamaican patois.

I don’t want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, ‘Yeah, I’m producing.’ It gave me a fresh vibe – inspiring in a different way.

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn’t always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn’t take one person’s opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.