Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

We gonna touch the sky.

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.