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.

I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brooklyn, and Jersey.

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.

You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pretty, baby. We move like Ali in his young days. We good with the...

I’m not going away fast; I’ve been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.

We’re building a movement, a one million man movement.

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.

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.

I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there was an experience for me and for them. We are living in a new millennium, a new...

Masquerade was on the Net for like four months, five months before it came out. Right now, everyone’s trying to see if they can come up with a code where they can prevent that from...

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.