Kanye West Quotes

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates sacrifice. It does mean that you can't be everywhere all the time. It does mean that your friends are not going to get all of you.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

The girl or the world, you see someone gotta lose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose?

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out.

Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?