Vince Staples Quotes

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

I'm an only child, and I don't mind being alone.

You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty, pretty influenced by myself right now.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

The way I am makes it difficult for guys; I do my own thing the whole time, I'm so independent. If there's someone else in my life I often forget and carry on as normal.

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate.

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film.

[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

I believe in style, not fashion.

I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.