The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

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

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.

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