“I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn’t boastful, but some of it is. But that’s just the music, the art.”

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I’ve been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot – I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I’ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that’s the perfect name.

I don’t call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

I want people to feel like they can do anything.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I work really hard – that doesn’t mean I deserve anything, but it’s really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It’s one of the best feelings.

I’m not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it’s real.

I’m just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.

The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

I’m all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can’t look to one person – you couldn’t look to me, you couldn’t say, ‘Because Vin’s in it, it’s this or that.’ It’s really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.