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" 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. "

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" '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. "

Wyclef Jean

Child

Winning

People

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

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

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

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Loved

People

" 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'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

" My parents were Christian. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wyclef Jean

Hip-Hop

Today

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

Comfortable

Just

" 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. "

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

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

" It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful. "

" 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