"I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music."
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"Turn that 62 to 125, 125 to 250, 250 to half a million, ain't nothing nobody can do with me."
"We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait."
"If I don't win, the award show loses credibility."
"What I feel like - 'cause I wanna be married, of course - I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing."
"I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to."
"I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two."
"I don't have one regret."
"Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him."
"Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?"
"Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?"
"I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet."
"You have to be able to swim in backlash."
"I am a black new wave artist."
"Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic."
"It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes."
"I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star."
"This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home"
"We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!"
"When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make."