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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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