I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
You'll end up living a lonely life if you're waiting around for perfect.
Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide open, and there's music blasting out in the street. You can see the reaction of people immediately.
Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.
That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of those rooms for inappropriate behavior. And they say a library is a boring place to work.
I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.
I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much ...
My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
My family were from Jamaica.
Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.
The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place.
In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
