“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.”

We all have that one friend who has a big ego. He or she can often get cocky, brag about his or herself, and rarely apologize. But we all know that none of our most egotistical friends have as big of a head as Kanye West.

West spoke with the New York Times yesterday about his sixth solo release Yeezus, which comes out on June 18. The ever-ambitious West talked about his past albums, regrets and even compared himself to Steve Jobs.

“I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. 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.”

How humble of him. Still, despite West’s bragging, you have to give the guy at least a little respect. All five of his solo albums have gone platinum, and he’s sold 30 million digital songs so far in his career. In addition, West has won 21 Grammys, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time.

West still found something to complain about despite his plethora of awards. “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.” Oh, there you go again Mr. West, playing the race card.

When asked about his interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye decided to go all ethereal on us. “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.”

Despite his confusion of the word goodness with the word awesomeness, West was kind enough to reveal the secret of his success. He talked about how the death of his mother influenced his creative process, but pain isn’t as important as the true reason why Kanye is awesome.

“Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.” Say what you want about the man, but at least he’s honest.