It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that’s what I’ll be doing on my next album.

I’ve done a lot of things to become what I’ve become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

I grew up in a condition where I could have chosen to go either way, negatively or positively. So I kind of chose to go positive and that stayed with me through my life, always have to have a positive outlook on whatever situation there is.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, ‘OK, I’ve done it all,’ but for me, it was a new beginning.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I’m not done at all.

If you go out to Hollywood you’ll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

I was a songwriter and I’ve written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.