On why Kim is with him: "She has dated broke black dudes, so it ain't got nothing to do with money."
"No one is looking at what Barack Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day."
"I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus."
"I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now--the regular dude...You know what I mean? The person that would spend his last dollar to try to get a hot car, not the person who says, 'Oh, we don't buy, we just lease' or the person who's like 'Oh, I have so many cars I could crash a car every day' and s**t."
"I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector."
On lyrics to his own song: "'Everything I'm not made me everything I am.' In my humble opinion, that's a prophetic statement. Gandhi would have said something like that."
"The best thing that any of the Backstreet Boys could have had was a really good woman in their life. I'm sure they had a lot of good p***y, but good p***y is fleeting. What's another word for 'good p***y' that's less vulgar?"
"If you read booksââwhich I don't, none at allââabout how to become a billionaire, they always say, 'You learn more from your mistakes.' So if you learn from your mistakes, then I'm a f***ing genius."
Kanye told Radio 1's Tim Westwood the three words that summed up his life were, "Louis Vuitton, porn, and church." In August 2005, he explained to The Guardian newspaper, "Well, I spend more time watching porn and praying about it afterwards. Then I'll put on some Louis Vuitton and leave."
"I'm a creative genius, and there's no other way to word it. I know you're not supposed to say that about yourself. I say things the wrong way a lot of times, but the intention is always positive."