Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don’t care.
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Any woman that you’re in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It’s actually easier to focus, in some ways.
If you can do it better than me, then you do it.
I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.
Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.
I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body.
The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.
Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I’m not having a good time.
We are all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.
The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I’ve put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn’t put themselves in. Like what’s vanity about wearing a kilt?
Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.
I’m like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.
When I think of competition it’s like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
I’m typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!
Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.
You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.
I just think that when my confidence meets other people’s insecurity, that equals Kanye’s arrogant.