Kanye West Quotes

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.