Kanye West

I was afraid to show you this 300 acres that I just purchased that I’m building my first community on – my first five properties on – because I felt like it would be shut down.

It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’

All this is saying is, OK I see now, the ‘hood does not quite want Shirley Bassey yet, so let me still give them this. Crack Music was made after Diamonds. After black people were like, ‘I don’t know about this one.’ It was like me reaching too high for the cookie jar.

I don’t have a sound bite for everything.

Ask a boxer: In the third round, when he hit you from the side on your ear, how did that specifically feel? You wouldn’t ask a boxer that. Because you know they’re there to fight. Meaning now you know I’m here to fight. I’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is.

I don’t think Disney gets enough credit as a director. When people talk about their favourite directors of all time, Disney has some dope movies under his belt too.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

To be honest, part of me doesn’t want to talk about being sick because I want it to all be behind me, but I know I have to.

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist.

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Not only is it a part of my life, I need to bring awareness to the severity of Lyme disease.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

I don’t regret opening up about what I went through [with depression]. Because, it sounds really cliche, but I have had women come up to me and say, ‘It meat so much to me.’