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

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.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

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

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

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.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

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.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

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

Fashion breaks my heart.

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

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

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.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I still think I am the greatest.

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.'

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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

Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.

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?'

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

If you admire someone, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

I live and breathe every element in life.

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

The dinosaurs are remembered only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity

Being fresh is more important than having money.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over But whats worse the pain or the hangover

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

Society and public opinion can beat the wings off of angels.

To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.