Kanye West apologises

Kanye West offered up an emotional apology to Taylor Swift during his appearance for the premiere night of The Jay Leno Show.

He also talked about taking a break after this controversy, saying, "It was rude, period. So many celebrities, they never take the time off. I've never taken the time off to really, just music after music and tour after tour. I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt.

My dream of what awards shows are supposed to be, 'cause, and I don't try to justify it because I was just in the wrong.

That's period. But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyze how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve."Although Kanye was set to perform, he asked for some air time to talk.

During the interview, he said it was, "extremely difficult to deal with the fact that I hurt someone and took something away from a talented artist."