Wyclef Jean Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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I don't have goals in life.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.
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Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
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But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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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.
