Do you think there’d be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn’t for that South Park photo?
Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?
I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.
Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe.
Thank God I’m not too cool for a seatbelt.
It’s a tough world out there. You’re going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees – and usually when you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’ except for two reasons: Sometimes it takes too long to write that and sometimes I spell the word ‘genius’ wrong. The irony.
But I think I’m on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
I can’t be a slave to the machine, you feel like you’re in the matrix.
What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people’s advice. There’s a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.
The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.
What if you’re Gaudi and you know you’re the best architect and everyone is saying that you’re saying you’re the best architect the wrong way?
Everything in the world is exactly the same.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don’t ever want me to say I’m great?
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
I understand culture. I am the nucleus.
I’ve got a million people telling me why I can’t do it. You know, that I’m not a real designer, that I’m not this. I’m not a real rapper, either!
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men’s polo shirt. We weren’t there, like, ready for war.
If I don’t win, the award show loses credibility.