Kanye West is on the cover of Interview magazine's February issue where he spoke his mind on several issues.

Below are six of the most interesting quotes from the interview conducted by 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen.

On people trying to silence him: "People are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying."

On his video Bound 2 with fiancee Kim Kardashian: "I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one of the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, or the way joy looks and feels, with the colors."

On taking risks: "Well, all we have is today. You know, the past is gone, and tomorrow is not promised... The risk for me would be in not taking one-that's the only thing that's really risky for me."

On his success: "Only one of two things can happen: either I'm gonna be right or I'm gonna be wrong. But if you look at the past 10 years, I've been right."

On being a young prodigy: "I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago."

On Madonna: "Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context."

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