Kanye West says he needs to take some time off after he displayed crazy behaviour towards Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

The singer apologised about the incident for the third time during his appearance on 'The Jay Leno Show' last night, reports Eonline.com.

West said: "Dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist — or from anyone — because I only wanted to help people,"

"My entire life, I've only wanted to do and give something that I felt was right and I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong."

"It's actually someone's emotions that I stepped on. It was rude, period. I'd like to apologise to her in person," said West.

When Leno asked West what he thought his late mother would've thought about the incident, West said: "You know, obviously, I deal with hurt and, you know, so many celebrities, they never take the time off."

"And I've never taken the time off, just music and music and tour after tour, and I'm ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt."

"After this, I need to just take some time off and analyse how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve, because I am a celebrity and that's just something I'm going to have to deal with."

"If there's anything I can do to help Taylor in the future, or help anyone, I want to... It's hard sometimes, you know?"

After the interview the rapper joined Rihanna and Jay-Z onstage to perform Jay-Z's 'Run This Town'.