1. “We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.” – Ziggy Marley
2. “Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.” – Ziggy Marley
3. “The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.” – Ziggy Marley
4. “Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.” – Ziggy Marley
5. “I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I’m just trying to be free with my expression.” – Ziggy Marley
6. “Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.” – Ziggy Marley
7. “Love is more than one thing.” – Ziggy Marley
8. “I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.” – Ziggy Marley
9. “I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.” – Ziggy Marley
10. “If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like a slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life become vibrant again.” – Ziggy Marley
11. “I have my own ideas.” – Ziggy Marley
12. “I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.” – Ziggy Marley
13. “I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.” – Ziggy Marley
14. “I don’t care what you play, where you’re from, who you produce. It depends on what you’re doing when you’re with me. That’s what counts. I don’t pre-judge anything or anybody.” – Ziggy Marley
15. “Running is a part of my medicine. It’s what helps relieve my stress, and it’s what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that’s going on in my life.” – Ziggy Marley
16. “Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.” – Ziggy Marley
17. “Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.” – Ziggy Marley
18. “No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let’s try to live the best we can now.” – Ziggy Marley
19. “I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.” – Ziggy Marley
20. “My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.” – Ziggy Marley
21. “God is for everyone.” – Ziggy Marley
22. “You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Ziggy Marley
23. “Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children’s growth and development, and in a parent’s connection with their children.” – Ziggy Marley
24. “Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.” – Ziggy Marley
25. “I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.” – Ziggy Marley
26. “The truth – you’ve got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.” – Ziggy Marley
27. “My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me… I don’t fight the universe.” – Ziggy Marley
28. “I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.” – Ziggy Marley
29. “Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.” – Ziggy Marley
30. “Success to me does not mean money.” – Ziggy Marley
31. “Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” – Ziggy Marley
32. “Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.” – Ziggy Marley
33. “My father’s songs don’t intimidate me; my father’s songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There’s no intimidation.” – Ziggy Marley
34. “People love me everywhere I go.” – Ziggy Marley
35. “Spirituality is a part of my family, from generation ago.” – Ziggy Marley
36. “Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.” – Ziggy Marley
37. “Screaming, it’s not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It’s hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I’d rather just listen.” – Ziggy Marley
38. “Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.” – Ziggy Marley
39. “There’s a rainbow in the sky all the time, don’t be blind.” – Ziggy Marley
40. “I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.” – Ziggy Marley
41. “Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.” – Ziggy Marley
42. “I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.” – Ziggy Marley
43. “It’s natural that anyone is compared to their father.” – Ziggy Marley
44. “I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.” – Ziggy Marley
45. “The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.” – Ziggy Marley
46. “I’m always in love.” – Ziggy Marley
47. “We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we’re inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people.” – Ziggy Marley
48. “Some of my songs I don’t do on tour because they don’t work well live.” – Ziggy Marley
49. “A record is a message, timeless.” – Ziggy Marley
50. “My father and I had a really good relationship. We’re cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.” – Ziggy Marley
51. “The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It’s the ability to love each other. That’s the only solution I see.” – Ziggy Marley
52. “The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.” – Ziggy Marley
53. “Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.” – Ziggy Marley
54. “Free spirits have to soar.” – Ziggy Marley
55. “God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.” – Ziggy Marley
56. “I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.” – Ziggy Marley
57. “So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don’t know the full effect of.” – Ziggy Marley
58. “I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It’s about feeding them something with meaning.” – Ziggy Marley
59. “The present is what slips by us while we’re pondering the past and worrying about the future.” – Ziggy Marley
60. “The last thing my father told me was – on your way up, take me up, on your way down, don’t let me down. A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.” – Ziggy Marley
61. “I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.” – Ziggy Marley
62. “Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren’t supposed to be done.” – Ziggy Marley
63. “As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.” – Ziggy Marley
64. “I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.” – Ziggy Marley
65. “Love is a spiritual thing.” – Ziggy Marley
66. “My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I’m a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.” – Ziggy Marley
67. “I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can’t make you high, but they will make you feel good.” – Ziggy Marley
68. “I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn’t have a father during my teenage years.” – Ziggy Marley
69. “It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.” – Ziggy Marley
70. “Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that – as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.” – Ziggy Marley
71. “The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.” – Ziggy Marley
72. “The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There’s so much good things on Earth, still. We haven’t destroyed everything.” – Ziggy Marley
73. “There’s more to life than physical and material.” – Ziggy Marley
74. “Just Do What you feel, and Don’t you fool yourself.” – Ziggy Marley
75. “I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time ’cuz sometimes it’s just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.” – Ziggy Marley
76. “People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I’m not paranoid or scared, I’m open. That’s how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.” – Ziggy Marley
77. “The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.” – Ziggy Marley