Vince Staples Quotes

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

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

The police are very mean people sometimes.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

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.

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

You're either ghetto or you're not.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Care and pity are two different things.

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