Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Vince Staples

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

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.

Care and pity are two different things.

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 wouldn't say I fear the future.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

The police are very mean people sometimes.

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

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

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.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

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.

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

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

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

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

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.

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.

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

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!

Everyone serves a purpose.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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