Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play. Shaggy is flamboyant; he’s cocky. And I can’t live that twenty-four hours a day – hell, no. Shaggy Read Quote
I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn’t like it; I thought it was derogatory. Shaggy Read Quote
You might be like, ‘I want really big hits.’ But when you get really big hits, and your label is making $150 million, they are people who are now interested in what you do. They are going to begin to tell you what to do, and so you become important. So your creative freedom – you’re not going to have that again. Shaggy Read Quote
I’ve always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, ‘Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can’t do dancehall,’ even though I came from dancehall. Shaggy Read Quote
You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn’t sound like what’s on the radio, it’s hard to sell it. Shaggy Read Quote
The mainstream is very fickle. If you’re hot, they’ll mess with you. If you’re not, it’s out of there. Shaggy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it – and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years. Shaggy Read Quote
