Ye: "I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice."

Ye: "I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure."

Ye: "The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me."

Ye: "My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened."

Ye: "We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it."

Ye: "If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep."

Ye: "Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions."

Ye: "I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory."

Ye: "You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist."

Ye: "The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'"

Ye: "I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."

Ye: "Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all."

Ye: "There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people."

Ye: "You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good."

Ye: "I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides."

Ye: "If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."

Ye: "I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone."

Ye: "I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things."

Ye: "My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure."

Ye: "People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people."

Ye: "I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying."

Ye: "I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy."

Ye: "The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write."

Ye: "Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other."

Ye: "Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win."

Ye: "Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life."

Ye: "If I meet someone I respect or look up to, I will literally kiss their feet."

Ye: "People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try."

Ye: "For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success."

Ye: "All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race."

Ye: "I just want people to be the best them's and live the happiest lives possible."

Ye: "Sometimes honesty can be used improperly. You can use it to hurt somebody. ... You have to have more tact and class than to blurt out honest statements. People can't handle the truth sometimes."

Ye: "We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other."

Ye: "I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised."

Ye: "We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew."

Ye: "People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!"

Ye: "I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities."

Ye: "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food."

Ye: "Fusion is the future, period. The mixing of ideas, the two lunch tables working together. Humanity, period. We're one people."

Ye: "I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do."

Ye: "Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet."

Ye: “What do I fear? Just fear of being wack, fear of not having an idea, because at that point I’ll be dead. My ideas are my air. I breathe creativity.”

Ye: "If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world."

Ye: "The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?"

Ye: "Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain."

Ye: "I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones."

Ye: "I love sleep; it's my favorite."

Ye: "I use the world as my therapist. Anyone I talk to is my therapist. I will pull them into the conversation of what I’m feeling at that point and get their perspective. Sometimes they’ll be like, ‘damn I’m talking to Ye, I’m not expecting to talk about this.’ You know, I’ll talk through things, and I put that as advice to people: use people around you as your therapist, cause they probably know more about you."

Ye: "Nothing in life is promised except death."

Ye: "Yeezy will end up like a relief company. If there’s a disaster we’re going to dress, we’re going to bring clothes and water. The same design perspective that can sell a $300 shirt, we’re going to give it. Eventually that’s who we’ll be. You’ll look up, 5 10 years from now, Yeezy will be the biggest service provider of apparel."

Ye: "I dropped out of school in order to learn"

Ye: “If you put your heart into something and you had a grasp of what was really good and you knew you delivered a good product, you have the right to defend your product after people criticize it.”

Ye: “If you want to be a doctor, go to college. Do something. Use school. Don’t let it use you. It’s big business.”

Ye: “One of my biggest Achilles' heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there's hope for everyone.”

Ye: "The idea of exclusivity is a new colored people fountain."