Ireland kind of reminds me of Jamaicans - there are a lot of Irish people in Jamaica. It's the blend of their easy-going nature, cool mentality, and warmth. Shaggy More Quotes by Shaggy More Quotes From Shaggy You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it. Shaggy scare next faces Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow. Shaggy sorrow impossible needs I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping. Shaggy drawers dropping believe I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all. Shaggy hobbies girl night I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight. Shaggy surfing swim trying Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, Shaggy mom play character I always been a lover of music and it all started with me trying to make dubplates and I couldn't afford to hire people to do dubplates, so I started doing them myself. Shaggy lovers trying people I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem. Shaggy amazing music problem people You don't create legends out of other legends. Shaggy out create you legends I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country that's so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain't even got snow. We do everything in extreme. Shaggy think rich team culture We don't have all this gay-bashing crime. You don't see that. It's not there. That is not really happening in Jamaica. But because a few artists basically sing it and put records out and the media runs with it, then the stigma becomes big, and now we're trapped with that whole thing. It's really sad. Shaggy you crime sad media I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money. Shaggy budget big company money I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person. Shaggy go look think people Reggae is a culture. It's easy, laid-back. Shaggy reggae easy culture When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women. Shaggy my-life me women life When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes. Shaggy key whatever changes reggae Music, music, music. It doesn't get much better than that! It pretty much consumes my life. Shaggy my-life better music life I'm from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She's my world. Shaggy dad family mom world My career has taken so many directions. Shaggy directions career many taken If you listen to all my earlier stuff, it wasn't 'authentic reggae,' so to speak. Shaggy listen you reggae speak
