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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work.

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What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.

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I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.

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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

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When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in the realm of politics, he has never stood up for anything.

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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

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I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

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

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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

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That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

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

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Whenever I would get in trouble with my dad, my mom would always save me. So that's why I like my mom - she cool.

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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.

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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

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When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.

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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

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I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to.

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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.

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

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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

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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.

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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.

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You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

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