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

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" With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing. "

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

" My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. "

" Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks. "

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

" I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today. "

" I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. "

" My parents were Christian. "

" When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things. "

" 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. "

" I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work. "

" I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC. "

" I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60. "

" My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy. "

" I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual. "

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

" I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little. "

" When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it. "

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

" When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. "

" That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. "

" There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. "

" What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder. "