It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.
— Kanye West
I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.
My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.
I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.
I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.
I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.
I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.
I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.
The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?
The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.
My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.
In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.
The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.
I told y'all I didn't vote, right? But if I would've voted, I would've voted for Trump.
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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.
Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.
Art is to be free. Design is to fix.
I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.
It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.
I love sleep; it's my favorite.
I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.
All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.'
I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.
There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.
Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.
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.
Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.
I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.
The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.
There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.
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.
Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.
Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.
My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.
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 wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side.
I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.
I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.
People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.
