Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.
I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
I’ve reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.
I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?
I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.
Pharrell has always been my style idol.
We culture. Rap is the new rock ’n roll. We the rockstars. It’s been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!
I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
Take your diamonds and throw em up like you’re bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.
There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between “Graduation” and “808s,” and were able to become more successful at it.
Every time I crash the Internet, it’s like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?
50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let ’em hate, watch the money pile up.
Fur pillows are actually hard to sleep on.
A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there’s also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.
If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic...
When we die, the money we can’t keep, but we probably spend it all cause the pain ain’t cheap.
I’ve had meetings where a guy actually told me, “What we’re trying to figure out is how we can control you.” In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?
I know you can’t control everything, and everything is in God’s hands ultimately, but I’m going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don’t care.