Kanye West Quotes

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

I'm not a singer. I'm not an R&B singer. I'm an artist.

It's not that I'm playing a rapper. I definitely feel like I'm a legitimate rapper. I just think that, who I am, there's more to me than just being a rapper.

I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

I don't think I'm a country artist, really. I'm a country person, but I don't think I'm necessarily a country singer or musician.