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?

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.

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 happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion; anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.