105 Quotes by Shaggy

I always had these big records with people who were relatively unknown.

When I look at my catalog, most of my songs are about love or relationships. And I'm smart enough to say if it's not broken, don't fix it.

I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

We don't have all this gay-bashing crime. You don't see that. It's not there. That is not really happening in Jamaica. But because a few artists basically sing it and put records out and the media runs with it, then the stigma becomes big, and now we're trapped with that whole thing. It's really sad.

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes.

When magic happens, it just happens, brother.

I fought for the U.S. government. I live in New York. I pay taxes in America.