Kanye West Quotes

Quotes by and about Kanye West

(Continued from his main entry on the site.)

West: "I've always had an issue with masculinity. ... Because I have some feminine ways."

West: "My mother was my everything. Of course there's a good side to that, but the bad side of that is that people call you a mama's boy."

West: "I'm going to listen to things that my father told me and my step-father told me ... and walk like that."

West: "I was always trying to figure out a way for me to express myself and rap was the best way to express what was on your mind. Me and my father sat and talked about a bunch of issues that need to be brought up. A lot of people who have that instilled in them, don't know how to word it in a way where the public will accept it."

West: "I'm going to stand for everything I've seen in my life. And I'm going to try to express that to you all the best that I can."

West: "I'm definitely trying to restore the golden age of hip-hop."

West: "Real life inspires me to write."

West: "[John Mayer] words stuff with a real ... witty, intelligent, very human [sensibility]. I would like to grab some of those qualities. I wish he was my friend."