I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.

If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.

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.

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.

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.

Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.