Kanye West Quotes

“I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it's like a blowfish. I wasn't coming out of my house going to a paparazzi's house to attack them. I'm defending my family in front of my own house. I'm defending my name as someone's screaming something negative at me. That's a blowfish. 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'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.”

“For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself”

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

“If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?”

“To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.”

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

“I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.”

“If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.”

“The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.”

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.”

“I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.”

“People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.”

“In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.”

“I told y'all I didn't vote, right? But if I would've voted, I would've voted for Trump.”

“I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.”

“I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding”

“I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe i'm not actually a huge douche...”

“What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?”

“I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.”

“I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.”

“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.”

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

“To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.”

“If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.”