Quotes from Kanye West

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

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'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

I looked at Justin, and I was like: "Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.

I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don't know any personally.

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

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

We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.