"Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins."
"I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things."
"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture."
"I will go down as the voice of a generation."
"Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?"
"I am Warhol! I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am
Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney, Nike, Google."
"People are going to look at this interview and say, 'I don’t like Kanye. Look, he looks mad. I don’t like his teeth.'"
"I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix."
"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."
"I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting."
[On his impulsive behaviour] "It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness."