A biography for Wyclef Jeanhasn’t been written yet.
“When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.”
“My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.”
“It's the same with [my wife] -- when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I'm not worried with the kind of relationship we've got. Most people, they don't leave room for mistakes in their relationship.”
“Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.”
“I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.”
“I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.”
“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.”
“I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.”
“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”
“What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.”
“As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.”
“Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.”
“I really have fans that are from 14 or 15 years old to 60.”
“Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool.”