201 Quotes by Wyclef Jean

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

My first record wasn’t even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

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

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

The thing which America allows you to be is it’s the country of opportunities.

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.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I’ve been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

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.

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.