Kanye West Quotes

I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

I do what I want. Everybody does what he likes. What is so unique about it?

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

I'm not trying to live anybody else's life.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

It's your life, live it your way.