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

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

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.'

Let the music defuse all the tension.