I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.
The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
