Quotes from Vince Staples

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.