Sean Paul

“I like music when it makes you feel.”

“Most people are fortunate enough to stay two, three years in this game. I've been in it for seven years, and I feel like now, I'm just beginning.”

“I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.”

“I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'”

“My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.”

“I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.”

“'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.”

“On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'”

“I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.”