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

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.

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

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.

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

America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

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?