Kanye West Quotes

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.

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

I'm the 'Showstoppa', the Main Event, the icon!

It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.

Kevin Eastman is like a Buddha, like the coolest thing in the world, like a rock star.

A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

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 get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

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?

If you act like a rock star, you will be treated like one

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I'd given them notice. I didn't just want to walk in there and say, "'I'm going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway".

If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the street and ask you for your autograph. But as an author? That's not something I was ready for.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

Potty mouth, rock star, at the top and still tryna climb, Drop the top sit back recline

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.

A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, 'Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?' But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, 'Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?' Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they'll just live in my bubble world.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring--and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I was one of the few heiresses to walk the runway as a model. A lot of people thought that was shocking. Why did I do it? Was it a desperate cry for attention, like the papers said? Hardly. It's not like I need any more attention. Did I do it for money? Of course not. Modeling doesn't pay that well, anyway, unless you're Gisele or Cindy Crawford, or, like Patti Hansen, you get to marry a rock star. I did it because it was fun.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

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

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.