"I used to have the Virgin music..." - Quote by Kanye West

“For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.”

“All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.”

“Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?”

“If I persist long enough I will win.”

“Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.”

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

“As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.”

“Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”

“If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.”