My parents were Christian.

I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

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

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

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.