Following the grand unveiling of his adidas collection on Thursday, Kanye West has given an exclusive and lengthy interview to Style.com, about the collaboration, his experience as a designer and wife Kim Kardashian, amongst other things. Don't have time to read the full thing? These are the most important things we learned about the wonderful(-ly bonkers) Mr West.

1. Kanye likes to be innovative. And would be better at Pyramid than Joey Tribbiani.

“Even with the way we took adidas socks and turned them into sports bras. It’s like, ‘What is almost like Alaïa that you can sweat in?’ A sock!”

2. He is against elitism. Even though he gave Kim a hand-painted Hermes Birkin bag one Christmas.

“I think high fashion is about elitism and separation, and I am completely opposed to that.”

3. He will make you like his adidas line, even if you hate it.

“Anyone that has a negative comment just needs to have the clothing in their life.”

4. Kanye loves students (and we went to the wrong university).

“When I did concerts, two, three years ago, when [Central Saint Martins] professorLouise Wilson was alive, I’d give 100, 200 free tickets to Saint Martins students in London.”

5. He’s a big fan of his own styling work.

“I’m biased, but I think the best red-carpet look of all time—if not, one of the top five—was my wife’s look at the Grammys.”

6. Kanye only keeps up with couture.

“I just think for me as a person that dresses the most photographed person in the world, I get bored with ready-to-wear really easily.”

7. He calls Kris Jenner ‘Mom’!

“The so-called traction that I was getting in the high-fashion world was completely thrown out the window and I was finally allowed to go to school, where every day I was in my mom [Kris Jenner]’s house, in my little brother’s old room, Rob’s old room, re-tailoring a Céline skirt, re-tailoring a Saint Laurent jacket, re-tailoring a Zara top, re-tailoring Wolford.”

[related] 8. He knows sometimes he talks a lot of s**t.

“I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure. My purpose is extremely just.”

9. However, he doesn’t know we’re all made of water.

“It’s up to people to be oil or water. If you’re water, your life’s already over. If you’re oil, like the age of the kids that were standing there, you’ll probably be sparked and do something really dynamic in life.”

10. Kanye’s interest in fashion was sparked at his grandfather’s funeral.

“And I looked at the entire funeral and I said to myself, ‘This looks just as good, if not better, than fashion shows that I go to in Paris.’”

11. He’s very self-aware.

“Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.”

12. His adidas collaboration isn’t a one-off thing.

“It’s not some weird promotional lineup BS, like Versace doing something for H&M and for that one moment in someone’s life they can have the one shirt.”

13. Yeezy’s not out to impress the fashion crowd.

“Now it’s up to you to choose whether or not I’m chic enough to sit at your dinner table. And I could give a f**k about your dinner table, by the way. I’ve got my own petrified Rick Owens table in my house. Is that chic enough?”

14. He’s no better or worse than you and I.

“I hate the concept of limited edition completely. I hate the concept of separatism. Elitism. Classism. We’re all equal.”

15. There’s a reason why he’s so keen to do the designer thing.

“I’m here to help the 14-year-old version of myself that couldn’t afford shit.”

16. He really wants you to buy that damn adidas collection.

“I don’t have the exact prices. But what I will tell you is that we’ll eventually get them super-inexpensive. And it will be all about everyone having them.”

17. Just when you were starting to like him again, he says something totally Yeezus.

“I had a heartfelt discussion with my Tumblr.”

18. And another thing.

“I also just wanted to say a major influence was the London riots because I was living in London at that time and saw the way that the kids wanted the clothes and I didn’t have the skill set to do the more inexpensive clothes.”

19. And just one more, to make sure you go away thinking Kanye West is still absolutely crackers.

“One of my dreams was to be the head creative director of the Gap. I’d like to be the Steve Jobs of the Gap.”