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" 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. "

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" 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? "

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

" My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents were Christian. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "