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

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

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

I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?

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