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 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.

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.

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 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...

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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...