I just told you who I thought I was: A god. I just told you. That’s who I think I am.

The line is an extreme, self-mythologizing assertion of identity: the speaker rejects ordinary categories of fame or talent and instead claims a quasi-divine status. Read rhetorically, it functions less as a theological statement than as a performance of absolute self-belief—an insistence that perception (how he “thinks” of himself) should govern how others interpret his actions and work. It also dramatizes a recurring tension in celebrity culture between confidence and hubris: the quote dares the audience to decide whether the claim is visionary self-creation, narcissistic overreach, or a critique of how modern culture elevates artists into godlike figures.