Quotes from Wyclef Jean

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.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

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 help people out and work.

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.

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

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 a lot of different looks.

You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

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

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

My parents were Christian.

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

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

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

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 thought it was cool.

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 from KFC.

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 don't know what the future will lead to.

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.

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

'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 on inside me.

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.

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

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

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 I was a minister through music.