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.
— Travis Scott
Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.
I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.
I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.
Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.
I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!
I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.
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.
Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.
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.
Fans be reflecting the way I be making music.
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.
With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my conscious and who I was mentally and who I am mentally.
I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.
I skipped 'College Dropout' and 'Late Registration' and went straight to '808s & Heartbreak.'
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.
I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.
That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.
Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.
I was in early on with 'Yeezus.'
Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.
I want to do what Kid Cudi did for kids for my generation.
I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.
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.
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, their camera guys to be my backdrop of my show.
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.
I don't write; I just go in the booth.
I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.
You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.
My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.
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.
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.
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.
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.
I design music; I don't produce it.
'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.
I'm not a gangsta.
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.
I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.
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.
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.
I always hate when, like, my favorite performer has a boring moment. Especially when they got mad hits.
I know what my identity is.
I feel like God put me here to help out with people's soul, man.
I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.
I've got a song with Roscoe Dash - that's next level, man.
I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.
I'm not hip-hop.
There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.
