Vince Staples Quotes

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.

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.

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

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

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.

That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.

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

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

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.

I wouldn't say I fear the future.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Everyone serves a purpose.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

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