There's something really powerful when I, for example, hear Bob Marley's 'Exodus' - we know where we're going. We know where we're from.

When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds