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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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