Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.
For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'
I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.
I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.
I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.
I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.
I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.
I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.
I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. They know I'm someone who is real spiritual. I love to have fun, and I always have fun songs - songs you can party to. But I also always have songs you can live to, that when you're depressed, it may lift your spirits up.
My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.
I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.
With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.
It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.
Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?
G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.
