I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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.
My parents were Christian.
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.
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.
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 want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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 want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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?
When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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.
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.
When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.
