Guess who learned nothing from that Tom Cruise situation. Although it did garner him quite the few column inches...

Here's what Kanye said in an interview with Saturday Night Online. By the by, the "moving mountain" in question is a stage prop employed as part of his Yeezus tour:

            "I'm just giving up my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally... That mountain goes really, really high. And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like 'Wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something'... You're literally going out to do your job every day knowing that something could happen to you," West said. "Something could happen to you verbally from the press bashing you; something could happen to you from people not liking you anymore 'cause of your records or you could actually slip on that stage... We are walking this tightrope and fighting for creativity, fighting for ideas and fighting for thought... I'll explain to my daughter one day that we had to fight for this position that we'll finally have." Lucky North.

So let's recap. Kanye has kompared standing on one of his stage props to warble a few tracks to the unknown dangers faced by police officers and soldiers. Way to teach the daughter perspective.

In other news, Kanye reportedly kicked a female fan out of his gig on Sunday for heckling. All she wanted him to do was take off that mask he wears, which apparently was a crime against "art."

Here's how the silver- tongued one dealt with that situation: "you can see my face on the Internet, every motherf**king day. I came here, I open up a mountain...and you tryin' to tell me how to give you my art... 'Do I look like a motherf**king comedian? Don't f**king heckle me. I'm Kanye motherf**king West. I'm dead f**king serious."

Too serious, Kanye, smidgen too serious.