KANYE WEST

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Our work is never over.

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.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I am not a fan of books.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I still think I am the greatest.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.