Quotes from Kanye West

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

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?

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Success is the best revenge.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.