Vince Staples Quotes

I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

Normalcy is not interesting.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

I try to be as normal as I can.

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

I have a regular, normal private life.

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

I like to go to bed early.

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things.

My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

It's very nice to be a sort of normal person for once; I think it's about as normal as I'm going to get.

When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.