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" 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? "

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

" I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My parents were Christian. "

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

" All that violence in the world, we need to stop that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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