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American - Musician Born: October 17, 1972

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

Day God You People

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

Positive Negative Ghetto Lived

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

Life Good Time Life Is Short

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

Love Peace Racial Tried

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

Day Challenge Every Day Go

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

Experience People Want America

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

People Real Trying Always

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

Change You Generation Embrace

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

World Violence Stop Need

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.

Life Eyes My Life Remember

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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

Cool Suits Think Influence

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

Food Dinner School Birds

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

Me You Guitar Just

My parents were Christian.

Parents Christian Were

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.

Music Me War Father

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

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.

Money Never Big Happened

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.

Work Music People Nice

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

Love Music Age Doing

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.

Love You People Important

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

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

Music Trying Break Rap

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

Good You Feel Feel Good

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

School Matter High School High

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.

Like Head Sing Minds

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.

Beautiful Day Money Sunshine

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