Vince Staples Quotes

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn't let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary... And when I left 'Spring Awakening,' I came out of that experience feeling like... I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn't existed before.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

I’m not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

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.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.