Quotes from Kanye West

I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper.

I'm a monster, I'm a maven, I know this world is changin'. Never gave in, never gave up, I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

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

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

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

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

If you have power, you have to empower.

No one man should have all that power.

You have the power to let power go

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

I'm not comfortable with comfort. I'm only comfortable when I'm in a place where I'm constantly learning and growing.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

Nothing in life is promised except death.