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.

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

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

When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.

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

My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.