It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.

As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, "Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together." And there are so many images of things that it's almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount you're seeing and carry it into one language.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.