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

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean

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

I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch.
Wyclef Jean

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

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

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.
Wyclef Jean

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

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

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


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

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.
Wyclef Jean

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

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

My parents were Christian.
Wyclef Jean

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

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

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

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean

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