Shaggy
Shaggy

You don't create legends out of other legends.

Shaggy
Shaggy

When magic happens, it just happens, brother.

Shaggy
Shaggy

I just put people on my records that I think bring something really unique to the song, and that's what's going to make it live over time. Not the fact that an artist might be 'hot' at the time.

Shaggy
Shaggy

After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.

Shaggy
Shaggy

Reggae is a culture. It's easy, laid-back.

Shaggy
Shaggy

A lot of people do records, and they get hit records, but we were blessed with a lot of monsters. 'Oh Carolina' was a very monstrous record in 1993; so was 'Boombastic,' 'Angel' and 'It Wasn't Me.'

Shaggy
Shaggy

I prefer working with artists who are prepared to get down in the dungeons and get the job done.

Shaggy
Shaggy

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

Shaggy
Shaggy

When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers. This was an underground phenom.

Shaggy
Shaggy

The pop market is a very fickle market, and that's why for me to go into the teeny-pop, 'TRL' mode, it's not really for me.

Shaggy
Shaggy

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
Shaggy

The Irish want to smile, and they want to have fun.

Shaggy
Shaggy

The greatest thing about me is I have always been able to reinvent. We have done that about three or four times with my sound.

Shaggy
Shaggy

I live vicariously through my songs.

Shaggy
Shaggy

I always had these big records with people who were relatively unknown.

Shaggy
Shaggy

I get called everything from 'Mr Boombastic' to 'Mr Lover Lover' to 'Mr It Wasn't Me.' It's whatever is hot at that point.

Shaggy
Shaggy

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

Shaggy
Shaggy

Making records is not brain surgery.

Shaggy
Shaggy

I'm one of those artists that nobody ever sees coming. We started with Virgin in 1993. If you look at the climate of that time in reggae and you were to pick the top five people that'd have a shot at having mainstream success, I was nowhere in that equation at all.

Shaggy
Shaggy

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.