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.

No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.

We rappers are role models.

I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.

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.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.