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    A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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    For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.

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    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?

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    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.

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    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!

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    I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

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    I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

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    I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

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    I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

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    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

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

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    I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

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

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

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    I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

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    I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

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    I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.

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    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?

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    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

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    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.

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    It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

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    I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.

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    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.

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    I've never really [written] something that was inspired.

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

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

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    I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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    I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.

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    Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?

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    Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.

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    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.

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    Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.

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    My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.

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    My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.

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

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    My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.