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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My parents were Christian. "

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

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

" '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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "