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" As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick. "

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" You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island. "

" Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool. "

" My parents were Christian. "

" It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful. "

" I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people. "

" My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. "

" Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic. "

" What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. "

" I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. "

" I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to. "

" I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to. "

" Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change. "

" If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything. "

" I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it! "

" Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean? "

" When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. "

" When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything. "

" You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems. "

" At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure. "

" Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. "

" I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. "

" Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important. "

" When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar. "

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" I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing. "