Kanye West

So I’m you, I’m us, it’s us. It went from Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye – just being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confused, everything. The album is more of a reflection of who we are.

I think an extreme thing; I adjust it, I adjust it, I adjust it. That’s the way I get to it, but I have to push to, you know, the furthest concept possible.

If there’s anything that I can do with my time and my day to somehow make a difference, while I’m alive, imma try to do it. Period.

This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.

Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also thoughtful.

Maybe I shouldn’t have these dreams and aspirations. Maybe I should have given up on life ten years ago and stopped fighting for my truth.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.