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.
It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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.
The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.
I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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.
No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
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.
The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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.
