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?

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.

Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

Women’s voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.

My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.