I am not a fan of books.

The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.

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.

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

I still think I am the greatest.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

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?

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

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

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

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

We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

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'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.

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

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Fashion breaks my heart.

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?

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

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

I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

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.

I told y'all I didn't vote, right? But if I would've voted, I would've voted for Trump.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

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 know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.