Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.
I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.
There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause
The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.
Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.
I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
