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India is a great place.
I cleaned many a toilet.
I fought for this country.
I am not from a musical family.
My children are a joy to be around.
I like things that catch your ears.
Making records is not brain surgery.
I live vicariously through my songs.
My career has taken so many directions.
'Fields of Gold' is my favourite record.
I'm no stranger to making timeless music.
Reggae is a culture. It's easy, laid-back.
I'm still amazed at how the universe works.
The reggae fraternity is a small fraternity.
When magic happens, it just happens, brother.
You don't create legends out of other legends.
You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.
The Irish want to smile, and they want to have fun.
I like that raw energy that I get from an audience.
I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.
Music really evolves as it goes along. It's an evolution.
The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.
We're fortunate to have had success, not just in America but worldwide.
I always had these big records with people who were relatively unknown.
I fought for the U.S. government. I live in New York. I pay taxes in America.
I'm from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She's my world.
If you listen to all my earlier stuff, it wasn't 'authentic reggae,' so to speak.
I'm not big on collaborations with 'superstars.' It generally doesn't work for me.
'Shaggy' was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.
My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.
I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.
I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.
Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life.
I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.
Women love to talk, so you gotta be the guy that listens - not just listens but is interested.
I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.
I prefer working with artists who are prepared to get down in the dungeons and get the job done.
You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.
I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.
I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.
The mainstream is very fickle. If you're hot, they'll mess with you. If you're not, it's out of there.
I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.
After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.
When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.
Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.
I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn't like it; I thought it was derogatory.
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.
A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.
The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.
I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already had.