Vince Staples
What's important to me is people just being people.
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
You're either ghetto or you're not.
When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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.
Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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.
The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
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.Collection: Scared
I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.Collection: Bored
I live to die; better that than to live a lie.Collection: Lying
The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.Collection: Men
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.Collection: People
I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.Collection: Hurt
Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.Collection: Rushing
I usually just have ideas when I have them.Collection: Ideas
We're all equally important at the end of the day.Collection: The End Of The Day
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.Collection: School
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.Collection: People
Everyone serves a purpose.Collection: Purpose
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.Collection: Kangaroos
As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.Collection: Breathing
People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.Collection: People
When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Crazy
All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.Collection: Thinking
School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.Collection: School
People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Voice
I think the opinion is worth less now than it ever has been.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Emotional
The police are very mean people sometimes.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Wise
Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.Collection: Art
I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.Collection: Dollars
There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.Collection: Price Tag
I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.Collection: Struggle
That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.Collection: Crazy