If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.
I think that people always get what they deserve - whether you're around to see it or not.
Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.
The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.
I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The impulse comes from something deep inside. Wanting to my country to be better. Because of where we are, we don't always have spaces to reflect.
I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.
The Bahamas has a lot to say about the issues that affect it - the specific issues that also affect other communities. It offers a unique level of looking at, of entering a story. It's just like a mini-world.
There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.