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.

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'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

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

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.