All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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

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

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

I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote

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.
- Wyclef Jean Quote