I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.
I don't just throw out microwave records.
What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.
I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.
Everybody is doing the same old thing.
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.
I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.
If I'm paying people, and they're not handling my business right, I have to check them. 'Cause sometimes you're nice, and people don't jump on what they're supposed to do, but if you go in there screaming at everybody - 'Look, why aren't my posters up?' or 'Why wasn't my single out on this day?' - then they jump right on it.
When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.
Now everybody's sampling.
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.
I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years!
I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss.