I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
If you know you’re the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS.
I won’t go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I’ve ever felt to home.
I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.
I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.
I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
Fashion breaks my heart.
I gotta new strategy it’s called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.
It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.
As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.
I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I’m a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, ‘This is wrong.’
Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.
Us as a people, we can’t do it on our own. We have to understand that we’re not each other’s enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome.
I’m gonna sit here on this runway until I’m at the end of it. Because that’s that thing that people slave over. That’s that thing that people are slaves to. That’s that thing that I’m a slave to.