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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.

From Wyclef Jean

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

From Wyclef Jean

'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.

From Wyclef Jean

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.

From Wyclef Jean

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

From Wyclef Jean

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.

From Wyclef Jean

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.

From Wyclef Jean

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.

From Wyclef Jean

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

From Wyclef Jean

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

From Wyclef Jean

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