Vince Staples Quotes & Sayings

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

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician. — Vince Staples

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

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

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

Some people make their best music when life is horrible. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

You're either ghetto or you're not. — Vince Staples

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

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

The police are very mean people sometimes. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school. — Vince Staples

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

A lot of music comes from a selfish place ... — Vince Staples

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

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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

I live to die; better that than to live a lie. — Vince Staples

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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

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

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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

What's important to me is people just being people. — Vince Staples

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

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

We still wading in the water ...
Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water.
Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father,
Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver.
Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler,
Tell 'em talk is cheap ... niggas living for the dollar. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big. — Vince Staples

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

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. — Vince Staples

Care and pity are two different things. — Vince Staples

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. — Vince Staples

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! — Vince Staples

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

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people." — Vince Staples

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

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 ... — Vince Staples

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

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work. — Vince Staples