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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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'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. "

" 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. "

" My parents were Christian. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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