Kanye West Quotes

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

I don't do things I can't win.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious, egotistical perspective.

I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you're in the wrong profession.

I'm grand once I keep winning trophies. That's all that counts.

I am not Lionel Messi, I'm not Maradona, I'm just Dries and I'm happy with that.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I'm not saying I'm the best, but we the best.

It's incredible to win an individual award in a team sport and also one where everybody wants to be able to say, 'I'm the best.'

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Ego is good.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.