Vince Staples Quotes

I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.

The main thing for all of us was having a ballad, a slower song. Finally, they get to hear more of a vulnerable side to us! We didn't really have that in 'Reflection,' and that's something we all fought for.

I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.

I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears - you want that full range of emotion.

I want filmmakers to notice me, not just as a glam doll but as a human being with all facets of emotions.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.

For an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in every scene, but I just love to feel different emotions when heading to set. It's a lot of fun to play with.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.