The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole, and a landscape that is not recorded, really, and the people.

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.

What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.'

That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain fresh.

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.

Nobody likes to be judged, including me, but I am the first to say that I am far from perfect.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.