I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

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

The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?

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