Kanye West Quotes

I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.

I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the 'it' factor.

I'm going to be the next David Frost.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

Anybody can be a star with the right song.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

In my heart, I want to believe I shouldn't give up anything to become a huge pop star.

I always thought: 'Oh my God, we are going to be famous, we're going to be huge.' We were 21, 22 years old.

I think 'American Idol' has prepared me for anything.

I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.

I actually believe he is the new Cilla Black.

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

You don't become a rock star for no reason.

To all my fans who's saying Donald Glover about to blow, just give me six months so you can say I told you so.

I'm going to be as big as Sinatra.

Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!