- I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it. -Jimmy Kimmel live, 2013
- Jay is Kweli's favorite rapper, 50 is Eminem's favorite rapper, and I’m my favorite rapper. -interview from 2007
- I’m like a vessel, and god has chosen me to be the voice and the connector. -the fader, 2008
- Don't ask me what I think the best song of last year was, because my opinion is the same as most of America’s. It was 'gold digger.'-Rolling Stone, 2006
- Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else? -Guardian, 2005
- I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things. -June 2013, New York Times
- I’m the no. 1 living and breathing rock star. –W Magazine, 2013
- When someone comes up and says something like, ‘I am a god,’ everybody says ‘who does he think he is?’ I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That’s who i think i am. -BBC radio 1’s Zane Lowe, 2013
- For me to say I wasn’t a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself. -Jimmy Kimmel live, 2013
- I am Warhol! I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney, Nike, Google. -sway in the morning, 2013
- Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. -w magazine, 2013
- The bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don't think that i would be one of the characters of today's modern bible? -radio interview with Tim Westwood, 2008
- My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. -vh1 storytellers, 2009
- You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing. -Twitter
- Yeah. I'm rich and I’m famous, but I try not to be extra with it. -Complex’s Westworld, April/May 2009
- A lot of people were wondering what i was going to do if i didn't win anything. I guess we'll never know. -47th Grammy award acceptance speech, 2005
- I’m a creative genius and there's no other way to word it. -Jimmy Kimmel live, 2013
- I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
- I am god's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
- I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
- I still think I am the greatest.
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