Top 35 Vince Staples Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I’ve never done drugs in my life.”

— Vince Staples

2. “I live to die; better that than to live a lie.”

— Vince Staples

3. “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.”

— Vince Staples

4. “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.”

— Vince Staples

5. “School doesn’t teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that’s what school is for.”

— Vince Staples

6. “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.”

— Vince Staples

7. “The police are very mean people sometimes.”

— Vince Staples

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

— Vince Staples

9. “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.”

— Vince Staples

10. “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!”

— Vince Staples

11. “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.”

— Vince Staples

12. “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.”

— Vince Staples

13. “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.”

— Vince Staples

14. “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.”

— Vince Staples

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

— Vince Staples

16. “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.”

— Vince Staples

17. “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.”

— Vince Staples

18. “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.”

— Vince Staples

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

— Vince Staples

20. “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.”

— Vince Staples

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

— Vince Staples

22. “Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I’m pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.”

— Vince Staples

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

— Vince Staples

24. “My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters ’cuz I couldn’t hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.”

— Vince Staples

25. “Where I come from, there’s no common enemy, there’s no “why.” There’s no, “I hate white people.””

— Vince Staples

26. “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...”

— Vince Staples

27. “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.”

— Vince Staples

28. “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.”

— Vince Staples

29. “I think there’s too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.”

— Vince Staples

30. “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.”

— Vince Staples

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

— Vince Staples

32. “School doesn’t really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.”

— Vince Staples

33. “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.”

— Vince Staples

34. “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.”

— Vince Staples

35. “I love Louisiana fried fish, but it’s all Martin Luther King, I can’t go over there.”

— Vince Staples