#1554 - Kanye West

I think very three-dimensionally. I don't think in the black and white lines that I've been programmed to think in. And I think in full color. So when I talk, I have to describe a thought in five ways ... We enjoy food that has multiple seasonings in it. We enjoy music that has multiple instruments. So when I talk, it's not a rant; it's a symphony of ideas.

I'm completely confident that I will figure out how to get America out of debt ... I never make the wrong decision when I'm given all the information. That's my skill set ... Producing, rap, homes, clothing, anything—once I'm given the right information, I apply my taste, and I have the best taste on the planet.

I believe that my calling is to be the leader of the free world.

Money isn't... It's not even real. It's not even backed by anything ... When you un-program yourself, you see that [there are] other forms of currency now, like relationships are a more important currency than money itself.

There were 210K deaths due to COVID in America, and everywhere you go, you see someone with a mask on ... There are 1,000 black children aborted a day, daily. We are in genocide. More black children have died since February [2020] than people have died of COVID.

I asked someone a week ago, 'How much is America in debt?' ... Then, I asked a rhetorical question—the dumbest question I've ever asked myself: I said, 'Well... How much does the Earth cost?'

When people say 'Is Ye crazy. Is Ye a narcissistic? Is Ye an egomaniac? Is Ye self-absorbed?' ... No, Ye know who Ye is. I know who I am, and I'm not fin to bow to an idea that you want to have of me. I am going to be the full idea that God has of me.

When we keep turning a blind eye to our brothers and our sisters and our family, which is us as a whole, as all of humanity, then of course it's going to get to the point where there are homeless [people] sleeping under a bridge in Calabasas ... We ignore the homeless person sleeping in front of the Gucci store ... Just look at that visual—it's a homeless person sleeping in front of the Gucci store.

When you remove... the fear of God, you create the possibility of the fear of everything else ... If you instill the fear of God, you eliminate the fear of anything else. And it's not that I am fearless; I [am].... in so much fear of my father. I fear God, and I don't fear nothing else.

No matter what religion you are, what we can agree on is it is always now, but now is the shortest moment of our life. It's gone in an instant. The longest moments of our life are our memories and our imaginations.

I'm like a human version of Instagram. When you look at Instagram... you're looking at like 100 images a day. Well, I've got millions of images in my mind, and the majority of them haven't been realized.

We're given Black History Month, and we take that like it's some gift to us. No, it's a programming to us. Racism doesn't end until we get to a point where we stop having to put the word 'black' in front of it.

Love will heal all ... I believe that world peace is possible, and I believe it's us looking at each other as a moment in time. Time is love. You love the things you put time into.

Music, at this point, loses me money ... My $5 billion dollar net worth and $300 million dollars of cash that I see a year, music is like negative $4 million for me.

People are so programmed and brainwashed into classism and protectionism that it's difficult for people to embrace innovation unless it has a tag on it that's got a name brand connected to it that says 'With this innovation, you will be better than... your next door neighbor.'

You see me on Twitter. I'll say 'I want all the smoke, I want all the problems,' because problems are the opportunities.

I just tell the truth, and telling the truth is crazy in a world full of lies.

We're all on medication right now. Did you use toothpaste with fluoride today? It blocks your pineal gland ... It's inside the deodorants that we use—all these things to create like a disconnect to God.

I won't let my own ego by my kryptonite. I won't let other people's opinions be my kryptonite. I won't let these labels that people put on me be my kryptonite.

The world is like... There couldn't be a better time to put a visionary in the captain's chair.

It's not about making more money; it's about keeping poor people poor and rich people rich and keeping people in their place.

COVID actually helped us to get closer to our families, to get closer to our children, understand... that was mapped out for us to be 50 minutes away from our home and our kids, school would be 30 minutes away, and to put us in traffic for that amount of time. These cities have been designed to promote industry and just to make more money; they haven't been designed to promote happiness.

I'd rather use arrogance than to let someone diminish my idea of myself because that is what keeps us going. Hope actually keeps us alive ... I went from having confidence and arrogance to having faith, and faith is the opposite of fear.

No matter what country in the world, whatever continent in the world, all of the moms and dads have something in common: They want the world to be better for their children. We all want the world to be better for the children.

I'm not at war with the music industry; it's just time for us to innovate.

I use that word a lot. I like 'paradigm-shift.' It's one of my favorite words.

God is all-knowing... and for me, as a visionary, we can only know or see what God allows us to see and what he feels we're ready to see and understand.

When I design, I become like a three-year-old. I have to go to my gut. I have to forget everything I know and really focus in to what I feel.

When you go and do your company, don't think because you got the most ownership that you actually have the control. If you don't have the information and the knowledge of how the distribution works, and you're not having that conversation, you don't have the control.