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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" My parents were Christian. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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