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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "