Last week, a snippet of the interview between BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe and Kanye West surfaced. Kanye West rarely gives interviews, but when he does, he takes them to the next level. The artist’s hour-long interview with BBC 1’s Zane Lowe that aired earlier this week was no exception, as West spontaneously shouted his way through a discussion of everything from Michael Jackson’s influence on his career to his relationship with Kim Kardashian.

The rapper sounded surprisingly calm as he discussed the special magic behind his relationship with Kim Kardashian.

“She gave me everything. She gave me a family. She gave me a support system,” West insisted. “She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for money, which is really hard for me to find.”

West, who was recently charged with criminal battery and attempted grand theft after a run-in with a paparazzi at LAX in July, also said he planned to change how people consume celebrity — kind of ironic, considering who he’s raising his child with.

“I’m telling my daughter, by the time she understands what it was, ‘Man, me and your mother were in a completely different situation than you’re in,'” West shouted. “‘People could take pictures, people could climb over your fence, and you wouldn’t even get paid for it. You see all these checks that you getting at age 6 because people are taking your picture? … I made that happen, Nori.’That’s what I’m going to tell her.”

Below, check out other memorable quotes from the interview, which can be heard in full here.

Leather jogging pants were Kanye’s idea, ok? Also, he is the world’s biggest rock star.
“We brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many motherf**kers you done seen with a leather jogging pant? So when I see Hedi Slimane, and it’s like, ‘OK, this is my take on the world,’ yeah, he’s got some nice $5,000 jeans in there, it’s some nice ones here and there, some good sh-t here and there, but we are culture. Rap is the new rock and roll. We are culture. Rap is the new rock and roll. We are the rockstars. It’s been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane. It’s been like that for a minute. We real the real rock stars and I’m the biggest of all of them! I’m the No. 1 rock star on the planet.”

Michael Jackson broke down boundaries, but there’s still a glass ceiling.
“I’ve got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down. I have reached the glass ceiling, as a creative person, as a celebrity…and I’ve been at it for 10 years. I look around and I say, ‘Wait a minute. There’s no one around here in that looks like me. And if they are, they’re quiet as fuck.’ So that means, wait a second — now we’re seriously like, in a civil rights movement.”

Kanye West gives the best interviews OF ALL TIME.
“People are going to look at this interview and say ‘Hey I understand what he’s on about’. I don’t like Kanye, he looks mad, I don’t like his teeth. They’re going to say ‘why doesn’t he just focus on music?’ ‘We like the old Kanye’. One thing they will do? They will play this interview in five years… They will play this interview in ten years.”

Kanye just wants to make the world a doper place.
“Dopeness is what I like the most. People who want to make things as dope as possible, and, by default, make money off it. What I don’t like is people who only want to make money off things, whether they’re dope or not.”

Listen to full audio here: