I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream. America allows you take that dream and bring it back to your country and help you inspire more people.
When you go to Carnival every year, you bounce to, you-know the different music that make it to Carnival in Trinidad. It don't matter about the country you're from.
I know country people who have The Carnival.
The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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.