Kanye West Quotes

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

I don't get inspired by too many people because I like uniqueness. I'm a unique dude.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

I certainly would not call myself creative. There are other coaches who are innovative and everything else. I wouldn't be that guy, that's for sure.

I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.

I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.

I like to think of myself as a true artist.

I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!