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The best thing about my house...

The best thing about my house is that I live five minutes from the airport, and since I fly more than I drive, it saves me a lot of time.

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There are those women who deg...

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

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America is a symbol of freedo...

America is a symbol of freedom - it's a symbol of democracy - and if that is threatened, we have to take this platform and use it to be a voice for the voiceless.

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I have a festival called Shag...

I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.

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I want to build a fanbase. I ...

I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.

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I've been criticized for doin...

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

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If you look at my track recor...

If you look at my track record, there was nothing on radio that sounded like 'Oh Carolina,' 'Mr Bombastic' when they came out.

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The thing about Shaggy's reco...

The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.

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When you see a Jamaica video,...

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

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I have to be me, which is, do...

I have to be me, which is, don't like a lot of crowds, don't like a lot of attention - kind of being by myself.

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The Police, they were the guy...

The Police, they were the guys that were like the gateway to the mainstream. In England, there was a very strong reggae movement that was going on. Anything that was happening in reggae happened out of England. They were brilliant. They could spot a sound that was cool, the 'it' sound.

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You don't create legends out ...

You don't create legends out of other legends.

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Even my mom is calling me Sha...

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. Shaggy is flamboyant; he's cocky. And I can't live that twenty-four hours a day - hell, no.

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I'm inspired by day to day li...

I'm inspired by day to day life, things that people go through, things that make people tick. Everybody has a story, so you try to put stories into songs and try to make it as entertaining as possible.

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I think the reason I got into...

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

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I have mixed feelings about N...

I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000 records. But for an established artist, there's already so much piracy around. They need to regulate it.

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The greatest thing about me i...

The greatest thing about me is I have always been able to reinvent. We have done that about three or four times with my sound.

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I just think, as a people in ...

I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.

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After I made 'Oh Carolina' in...

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

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I've seen the harshest of reg...

I've seen the harshest of reggae purists come give me my props because I've been at it for so long... They've seen me come from the hardest of hard-core dancehall to where I am, and they've heard my music change through the years. Some might not agree, but they respect.

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