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

You never really know how you come to the earth, it’s really a mystery, and when you leave, it’s sort of a mystery too-but somehow, whoever you’re a part of, you have a natural connection...

When you’re in the studio at a young age, you’re not aware that there’s a union where you can hire musicians. So you have all of this equipment and you just learn how to play...

You be in a club with these girls and they’re looking at you, giving you play, but you don’t want no play, because you realize the next week Jay-Z comes into town and it’s the...

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

What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that’s what I think I can do for Haiti.

I led a double lifestyle-in the house, I was one way, and out the house, I was another way. Man, the whole house raised hell, then I got kicked out.

I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream.

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.

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’m 27 years old. I’m going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I’ll be breaking a lot of rules. It’s going to be hot.

Right now I’ve got to do something with Carlos Santana, getting ready to come out with Jerry Wonder’s group City High.

‘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...

I sequenced the album like a radio station. Around midday, you’ll hear more of the commercial hip-hop stuff. When the nighttime comes, you’ll hear more of the depth of the records, when the beat stops...

Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal.

We got the Platinum Sound formula.

It’s the same with [my wife] — when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I’m not worried with the kind of relationship we’ve got. Most people, they don’t leave room for mistakes in...

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

I’m the King of Spring Ting! Without ‘Clef you can’t have no Spring Ting!

Definitely when I got on the plane to go back to Haiti, it was an emotional thing for me. It definitely touched my heart when I landed. I cried.

He rules, he’s real tough when it comes to business. I’m like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.

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...

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...

We produce, and we have producers we work with.

I would be writing so many songs in my head while I’m making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That’s why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place...

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

Some girls get turned on by being called a bitch.

When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it’s two different approaches.

I picked up that whole vibe, and I’m moving toward the future with it: the vibe of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, that type of thing. Because I’m a musician. I think that my...

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

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

I had to make this album. It was my therapy after losing my dad. If I didn’t have music, I’d probably be strung-out somewhere.

She looks the most beautiful when she’s in the field natural, no makeup, nothing, Because you see Angelina, the angel. It doesn’t get any better than that.

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...

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...

When you’re sleeping or getting up to go to school, that’s when we’re just leaving the studio, and we’ll be gone for three hours and then come back and be working another 15 to 20...

They said somehow I used to run out of the house and while the Carnival’s passing, with no clothes on, and I’m jigging my body, they used to come and pull me in. They said...

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

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I’ll be Vanilla Ice or something.

When you pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre.

I like Bergen County because it’s nice and quiet. It’s beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.

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

When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn.

I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.

I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and killed every day.

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...

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...

When you’re in the Caribbean, you’re having the best time, you’re hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don’t hear in New York sometimes, ’cause then you come back and it’s snowing.