Kanye West

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

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.

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

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.

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.

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

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.