Fashion breaks my heart.

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people, this is the level that things could be at. So when you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

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

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.