Staples: "You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across."

Staples: "I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician."

Staples: "Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better."

Staples: "Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be."

Staples: "The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most."

Staples: "I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through."

Staples: "Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals."

Staples: "Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever."

Staples: "My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet."

Staples: "What's important to me is people just being people."

Staples: "At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good."

Staples: "Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it."

Staples: "When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big."