The 16 Most Ridiculous Things Kanye Said In His New York Times Interview

The thing about Kanye is that he’s great. The other thing about him is that his grasp on reality is so loose, you’re always afraid he’s going to slip off into that special place reserved for chronic stoners and people who’ve been committed. Given that new album Yeezus is coming out next week and everyone seems to love hearing Kim Kardashian’s future baby daddy talk about any ole thing, there’s a quite lengthy New York Timespiece with the “visionary.” Without context, or further ado, we present the 16 most amazing things Ye said during his Malibu hangout (read: interview) with reporter Jon Caramanica, in case you haven't already read them on Twitter.

• "I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus."
   
• “I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.”
   
• "I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things."
   
• "The longer your ‘gevity is, the more confidence you build. The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous.”
   
• "It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is."
   
• “I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach — some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah — they’re all the same as that coach.”
   
• “You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, ‘This is wrong.’”
   
• “I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I’m also in the lineage of a Miles Davis — you know, that liked nice things also.”
   
• "I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men’s polo shirt. We weren’t there, like, ready for war."
   
• “I looked at Justin, and I was like: ‘Do you want me to go onstage for you?’”
   
• "I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person."
   
• "I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know?"
   
• "Like, this is my baby. This isn’t America’s baby."
   
• "This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration...I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body.”
   
• “Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?”
   
• "I would go up the escalator [at Virgin music stores] and say to myself, ‘I’m soaking in these last moments of anonymity.’ I knew I was going to make it this far.”

Mumford & Sons Cancels Shows as Bassist Undergoes Emergency Surgery

Mumford & Sons announced in a statement on itswebsite Tuesday the cancellation of three concerts due to a medical emergency with bassist Ted Dwane.

The Dallas, The Woodlands and New Orleans shows will be postponed while Dwane undergoes an operation to treat a blood clot near his brain. The band was set to headline the shows, which were all sold out.

Mumford & Sons has been touring the South promoting 2012 album "Babel," which won the Grammy for Album of the Year and debuted at No. 1.

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Here is the statement in its entirety:

To our fans -
Our friend and bandmate Ted has been feeling unwell for a few days, and yesterday he was taken to a hospital to receive emergency treatment. The scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain that requires an operation. Ted is receiving excellent care and we are being assured that he will recover quickly from surgery.

Sadly we have to postpone three upcoming headline shows planned for this week in Dallas on Tuesday 6/11, Woodlands on Wednesday 6/12, and New Orleans on Thursday 6/13. All dates will be rescheduled and will be announced as soon as we can; all tickets for this week’s events will be honoured at their rescheduled dates. We have no plans to cancel or postpone any other appearances along this current tour.

Vikings Adds Law & Order Vet to Season 2 Cast

A New York ADA and a tribute from District 2 are becoming Vikings.

Linus Roache, best known as the Law & Orderfranchise’s Michael Cutter, and Alexander Ludwig, of The Hunger Games, will be on board for the drama’s second season.

Roache will play Ecbert, King of Wessex, “a man full of strength, knowledge and undisguised ambition,” History announced Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Ludwig’s Bjorn is the smart, brave warrior son of Ragnar Lothbrok (played by Travis Fimmel).

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Executive producer Michael Hirst teased Ragnar’s interaction with Ecbert when he spoke with TVLine at the end of the show’s freshman season. “Wessex is a much bigger kingdom in England and has a much more powerful king,” he previewed, “so it’s going to be interesting how that pans out.”

In addition to playing legal eagle Cutter on Law & Order and its SVU offshoot, Roache has appeared on the British soap Coronation Street and in the Titanic miniseries. Newcomer Ludwig has had roles in Race to Witch Mountain and the upcoming Grown Ups 2.

The highly rated series’ 10-episode Season 2, slated to bow in 2014, begins production this summer.

Cat Deeley Talks Newlywed Bliss, Baby Planning—Watch Here!

Cat Deeley is definitely still in the honeymoon phase!

The TV host married Patrick Kielty last October in a secret ceremony in Italy, and the two have been loving their time as newlyweds ever since.

"It's really lovely, it's so so lovely," she told E! News. "I'm really actually enjoying it. It's one of those things where I sorta always said, 'I don't really care either way,' and then when you do it and it's kind of great to know that someone's got your back…we just have the best time together. We have a laugh and it's brilliant."

So is the blond beauty getting ready to add to her family anytime soon?

PHOTO: Cat Deeley flaunts her wedding ring

"Not right now," she revealed. "We are going to bake a small cake over the weekend. We're starting with a cake and we're going to move up. Do you see what I'm saying? I'm starting with one oven and going to another one."

It doesn't sound like a bun in the oven is that far in the future for Deeley!

She also dished on working with Nigel Lythgoe and the recent news surrounding hisAmerican Idol post.

"He's all well and good. He knows things are cyclical and you know what it's like. You've got to constantly refresh a TV show and normally that involves the people who work on the show," she said.

"It means now that he's going to focus more on Dancer, which is great for us."

Michael Bay to Develop Ubisoft’s ‘Ghost Recon’ Film at Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE)

Michael Bay is ready to go on a covert mission with Ubisoft, signing on to develop “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon”  into a potential film franchise at Warner Bros., with an eye to direct.

Project marks the first time Bay has worked with Warner Bros., after previously producing and helming films primarily with Disney, Sony, DreamWorks and Paramount.

The “Ghost Recon” games revolve around a fictional unit of the U.S. Army Special Forces that essentially operates as the President’s private army, using the latest technology to infiltrate and take down threats around the world without leaving any traces behind that they exist.

“These guys don’t belong to any specific organization,” Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO of Ubisoft Motion Pictures. “They’re in the field where the U.S. troops are not supposed to be. It’s a small team with very strong personalities and very specific skill sets. They’re using weapons nobody knows about but it’s very grounded. It’s not sci-fi.”

Ubisoft wanted to work with Bay “because he is a master at action movies,” Baronnet said. Bay is currently directing “Transformers 4″ for Paramount.

The film is the third high-profile adaptation of one of its games that Ubisoft has set up within the past year, with New Regency co-producing both “Assassin’s Creed” and “Splinter Cell.” Twentieth Century Fox has already set Memorial Day 2015 as the release date for “Assassin’s Creed,” which will star Michael Fassbender.

SEE ALSO: New Regency game for ‘Splinter Cell’ adaptation

However, as opposed to just licensing the films rights to Hollywood and hoping for the best, Ubisoft is taking more control in how the games are adapted, with an eye toward maintaining the DNA of the games while telling a brand new story not based on what gamers have already played.

It packaged its first film projects before shopping them to production shingles and studios, attaching Fassbender to “Assassin’s Creed” and Tom Hardy to “Splinter Cell.” Nickelodeon will also air an animated series based on Ubisoft’s “Raving Rabbids” games.

Ubisoft is now also meeting with screenwriters to tackle “Ghost Recon,” with Bay overseeing its development. Should he spark to the script, he could direct the film. The goal is to hire screenwriters later this month and start attaching talent in July. Ubisoft has the rights to use Tom Clancy’s name in the film title.

“When we started Ubisoft Motion Pictures we wanted to be able to maintain creative control of our franchises,” Baronnet said. “We wanted to be in a situation where we’re not making mainstream movies but movies that can respect the DNA of our game franchises. Today it’s real.”

More than 24 million “Ghost Recon” games have sold over the release of nine titles, four expansion packs and a Facebook game since 2001. “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” was released in 2012.

Ubisoft already had produced a live action short for the franchise, “Ghost Recon Alpha,” that was directed by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, and produced by Ridley Scott, giving a sense of what a big screen feature could look like.

Chanel Muse Welcomes Baby Boy

ELISA SEDNAOUI has welcomed her first child with her fiancé Alexander Dellal. The baby boy, named Jack Zeitoun Dellal, was born on May 31.

Although best-known for her modelling career (she has fronted campaigns for Roberto Cavalli,Chanel and Giorgio Armani), Sednaoui has two new acting projects lined up - the first, a modern Italian version of historic legend The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, will be released in Italy on June 13. Sednaoui appears alongside US actor Vincent Gallo. She also features in Alberto Arvelo's biopic about south American revolutionary Simon Bolivar, named Libertador, which hits cinemas later this year.

The part-French, part-Egyptian, part-Italian Storm model has also recently established a charity foundation to promote personal and educational development of children in rural areas. Her first major project will start in Egypt, with the establishment of an environmentally sustainable cultural and education centre situated on the Luxor West Bank. She is also in early editing phase of a documentary, co-directed with Martina Gili, based in the same region.

"We believe that we all have the power to become agents of change, and that young people should have the opportunity to follow their dreams and imagination and freely state their feelings, thoughts and experiences in open, creative ways," explained Sednaoui. "This is why we are determined to support programs designed to promote the personal and educational development of young people by implementing creative social and cultural activities that embrace new technologies while still respecting cultural heritage." 

Step Into SJP's Shoes

SARAH JESSICA PARKER is launching her own footwear collection. A mere 15 years (to the day) after first hitting our screens as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, and the actress has finally announced that she's making her design debut - to be titled simply, SJP.

Rather fittingly, Parker has chosen to collaborate on the range with George Malkemus, CEO of Manolo Blahnik - the label that, as Bradshaw, she helped put firmly on the fashion map. The accessories line will also feature an edit of bags and a few trench coats.

"Because I got to play that role, I wore a lot of shoes, and by default I learned an enormous amount," she told US Vogue, of her time on Sex and the City. "It's hard to - no pun intended - walk away from that."

The actress is taking inspiration from "great old-school labels like Charles Jourdan and Maud Frizon" for her collection, with the aim of offering "something different" - in terms of shape, colour, and price. Think pared-back, simple and elegant, with pumps and flats priced between $200 (£130), and $300 (£190), and bags for around $700 (£450).

"In a silly way, I think it's what people have expected of me most because of Carrie Bradshaw," she added. "We're putting new colours together that people don't typically do, just beautiful combinations that you wish existed in your closet. And in terms of bags, thinking about that period of the Seventies into the Eighties, what those women were carrying, taking away the bells and the whistles and hardware and really making it about the bag."

The SJP collection will be produced entirely in Europe and New York City, and will be on sale exclusively through US retailer Nordstrom early next year.