Quotes by Vince Staples

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are -- I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry -- that's like my main emotion.

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

When I was a kid if you didn't have Lil in front of your name, you were trash.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life -- there's not really a connection.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.

I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.

I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really.

Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.

If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.

I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face -- never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is -- I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.

I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists -- I haven't met a lot of 'em.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs -- about selling drugs, about using drugs -- it's bad for kids.

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.

I hate when I lose my voice and then people try and talk to me and I seem like I'm being rude and then I hurt their feelings. That sucks.

I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can -- I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.

I was never like, Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes. Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

The police are very mean people sometimes.

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.

I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do -- I just want people to see what I see.

People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.

Care and pity are two different things.

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

What's important to me is people just being people.

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.