201 Quotes by Wyclef Jean

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

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

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