Vic Mensa Quotes

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I am more off-the-cuff and wear my emotions on my sleeve more than I should.

Emotionally, I've always worn my heart on my sleeve.

I can't tone it down. I'm being me and being myself.

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

I'm a pretty open book.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

I'm pretty much an open book.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.