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

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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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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