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

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

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

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

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.

I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.