"Pharrell has always been my style idol."
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"A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that."
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"I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns"
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"When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am."
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"I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name."
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"I love the fact that I'm bad at [things]."
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"I never seen snakes on a plane"
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"Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21"
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"It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities."
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"...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts."
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"I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care."
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"All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs."
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"Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything."
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"I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production."
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"It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say Hey Mama"
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"I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!"
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"Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you."
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"People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie."
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"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"
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"If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me."
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