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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My parents were Christian. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

Wyclef Jean

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people. "

" 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. "

Wyclef Jean

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

Wyclef Jean

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

" 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? "

" 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 the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it. "

" 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. "