Vince Staples Quotes

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

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.

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

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.

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

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 think the opinion is worth less now than it ever has been.

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.

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

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.

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.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

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.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.

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

I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.

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.

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

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

When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Everyone serves a purpose.

I don't really have a focus, I just make music.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily following directions helps you get certain places - because you go to the right school you can learn the right things, and you go to the wrong school you can learn the wrong things, so it just all depends. But school doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars.

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.

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

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

Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

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

I wouldn't say I fear the future.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.

Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.

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 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.

One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

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.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

The police are very mean people sometimes.

We're all equally important at the end of the day.

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.

When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.

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

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!