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.

My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

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.

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

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.

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