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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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