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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Sing

Guitar

Politics

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

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

Wyclef Jean

Comfortable

Just

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Country

Rights

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

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

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

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

" Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Music

War

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

" 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. "

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

" I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive. "

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Cotton

Head

" 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. "

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Want

Song

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Wyclef Jean

Loved

People

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