So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

- Desmond Dekker

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

- Desmond Dekker

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

- Desmond Dekker

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

- Desmond Dekker

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it fro…

- Desmond Dekker

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can se…

- Desmond Dekker

You can get it if you really want

- Desmond Dekker

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

- Desmond Dekker

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't…

- Desmond Dekker