I want people to experience what it’s like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef – multicultural, multilingual.

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...

It was hard in the beginning: coming from Haiti, coming to Brooklyn. I mean, growing up in the projects.

The record company is happy because they feel they have things that they can play. I’m happy because I feel I have enough records to bump in the street and in the dance hall with...

I’m cheap, and I’m proud of it!

Being a New Yorker, you get there and you take your sneakers off, you’re cooperating, but man, that line be long! I mean, you do definitely want to be safe, but at the same time,...

We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what’s going on.

As a child growing up in Haiti I experienced the wrath and destructive power of hurricanes. My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes...

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

My parents were Christian.

What I picked up on Michael Jackson – because I study people when I watch them – the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is...

Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

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...

Right now, I’ve got the lead in what I’m doing. I’m in the best position. No one expects me to come in at number one, and I’m not concerned with it either. Let me come...

I’ve known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.

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

I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I’m good with themes.

You come to our father’s church, we would be playing, rocking that place upside-down. So he wanted us always to stay in that realm, and do education. But I sort of like drifted, ’cause I...

The way that I could describe Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, it was just glowing. What connects them is that they share the same goals. They love kids and that is just a connection right...

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

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

When I go into the studio… I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It’s got to be sexy.

When you’re an artist, if you get a 10-year run-some are over 10 years – and you’re successful, if you make over $20 million, then you gotta figure the money that you dished out and...

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?

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.

Right now I’m trying to help my sister with her school situation, ’cause she’s real smart. Besides me, my other brother’s a lawyer… my parents stressed education a lot.

It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, ’cause there’s another whole dimension of ‘Clef that you wasn’t expecting to hear.

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.

I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pieces outside the studio. They never saw my face or what I looked like.

We’re trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.

There are celebrities who have charities, but you don’t see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

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

I didn’t grow up to call a woman a ho. That’s just how I was brought up. I won’t call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch.

You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.

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

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 don’t only think that you should have your own studio, but you should also have your own studio, your own mastering facility, your own post room so you can cut your own videos.

I try to bring something different to all the artists I work with.

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...

It’s not fake. I don’t need to go in the studio, throw in a record, do a loop and put it out. To find an artist, you’ve gotta find the artist that brings it to...

When we produce our stuff, we’re cool. But when you’re producing artists, you take the role of a psychiatrist – a musical psychiatrist. You have to work slowly with an artist to show them how...

No matter what happens today, yesterday was historical. The only thing that erupted was the thirst to vote.

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

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

It’s ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it.

Right now, we’re working on a script for my life story and two kids coming from Haiti to America. One turns out to be a musician, one is a gangster. That’s all I can say.

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

For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.