Kanye West Quotes

When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name.

Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21

I never seen snakes on a plane

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

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.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.

Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you.

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!

It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say Hey Mama

We gonna touch the sky.

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.

Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

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.

As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

I don't have one regret.

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.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing.

If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.