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.
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.
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.
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
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.
I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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 do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.
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.
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
I'm cheap, and I'm proud of 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 songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
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.
