1) There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.
2) I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me.
3) You can't buy swag.
4) Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.
5) You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetics.
6) I know what my identity is.
7) Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
8) There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.
9) I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, and at times can be good.
10) I skipped 'College Dropout' and 'Late Registration' and went straight to '808s & Heartbreak.'
11) You can't buy being a rock star.
12) I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.
13) I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.
14) A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
15) Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic.
16) My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
17) Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.
18) I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It's more adaptive to young kids. It's more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I've always been into it.
19) I have devoted myself to the Rockets.
20) I was a smart kid. I went to a private school in middle school and got kicked out.
21) My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.
22) Beyonce is, like, the highest level. We all reach that level.
23) I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.
24) I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in the area; it's middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.
25) I'm super nice - I just get excited!
26) My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.
27) I'm not a gangsta.
28) I feel like God put me here to help out with people's souls, man.
29) When you come to my show, it's like a no-holds-barred, underground Royal Rumble.
30) I design music; I don't produce it.
31) Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.
32) My music isn't rapping-rap-rap-rap.
33) I was in early on with 'Yeezus.'
34) I'm a Bieber fan, man! That kid is ill!
35) In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don't care about anything else! This dude saved my life.
36) I wouldn't make music with you if I didn't know you. If you're a good artist, and if you know it as well, I'm down.
37) I feel like everything needs to be stylized; that's always been my mindset.
38) I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism.
39) That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.
40) I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.
41) I want to do what Kid Cudi did for kids of my generation.
42) I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat and giving it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.
43) Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, go straight on stage, or go crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.
44) One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.
45) I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.
46) I always hate when, like, my favorite performer has a boring moment. Especially when they got mad hits.
47) I love my fans more than anything.
48) You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.
49) I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, the dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!
50) You've gotta motivate kids. They wanna grow up. They got problems. You've gotta give 'em that music to make 'em feel like they're OK, and it's only a couple of artists that do that.
51) I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.
52) I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.
53) Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.
54) James Blake is a really good friend of mine. He's really different than what you think. He's super turned up.
55) The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his master's in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
56) 'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.
57) My grandad, has his doctorate in psychology.
58) I'm not hip-hop.
59) I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just a metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.
60) I have black friends, but I don't just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.
61) Me being in Houston, I wanted to leave there because it was only known for one thing. That's why I hit N.Y.; that's why I hit L.A. That's why I hit Paris, London. I just picked up basically everything, but I morphed it into what Travi$ Scott is and into what I know is fresh.
62) You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.
63) With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my consciousness and who I was mentally, and am mental.
64) Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.
65) Drake is an amazing person. Also, a magician. He's a big brother, super-talent; he's cool.
66) I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.
67) I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, or performing.
68) I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.
69) When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.
70) I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.
71) I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.
72) My A&R at Epic got fired the first week I got signed.
73) I don't know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I've never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, 'Man, I'm in the presence of 'Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.'
74) Honestly, I really can't speak for others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.
75) I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.
76) I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.
77) Cudi should be a top-tier artist... I think he fathered a lot of the style of music. He's a good influence and a good help.
78) I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.
79) I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.
80) I've got a song with Roscoe Dash - that's next level, man.
81) I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.
82) I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause, that's my favorite thing in music. That's the whole drive. That's the reason.
83) I don't write; I just go in the booth.
84) Fans be reflecting on the way I will be making music.
85) I'm a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He was on tour with Asher Roth.
86) I don't get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art direction at all. Instead of that, I get their press guys, and their camera guys to be the backdrop of my show.
87) Every time I go into the studio, it's some next-level, man.
88) I have this old Polo jacket. I've got to bring it wherever I go. And I have this one cape that somebody gave to me. It's this jumpsuit with this cape on the back that this one person gave to me. It's clutch.
89) My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always.
90) I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.
91) I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.
92) I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.
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