Quotes By Kanye West

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

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.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

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.

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

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

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?'

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

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

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

I still think I am the greatest.

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

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

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

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

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

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

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.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Fashion breaks my heart.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

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