The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

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

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

Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.

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.

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.