You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.

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.'

I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.