"I am a black new wave artist...." - Quote by Kanye West

“Everything I'm not makes me everything I am”

“Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.”

“Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?”

“Your house is your larger body.”

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

“The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art”

“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.”

“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”

“Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I”