When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

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

When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.

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

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

Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?