Kanye West Quotes

“I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.”

“What I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.”

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

“I still think I am the greatest.”

“I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.”

“Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

“People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.”

“You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'”

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

“Having money isn't everything, not having it is.”

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

“I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!”

“It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.”

“I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.”

“She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.”

“I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.”

“I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.”

“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.”

“I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.”

“You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.”

“My wife has dated broke black dudes.”

“We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.”

“You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude,...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.”

“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.”

“Art is to be free. Design is to fix.”