When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

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.

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

I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.