“We don't have all this gay-bashing crime. You don't see that. It's not...” — Shaggy Quote

“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.”

“I'm from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She's my world.”

“When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers. This was an underground phenom.”

“Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.”

“I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.”

“The danger is that the artists who'll put grime into the commercial and public eye will put grime at the back of their closets and jump on another genre of music.”