TRAVIS SCOTT

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.

I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.

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.

Beyonce is, like, the highest level. We all reach for that level.

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.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I'm doing.

You can't buy being a rock star.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

When you come to my show, it's like a no-holds-barred, underground Royal Rumble.

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.

I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

My A&R at Epic got fired the first week I got signed.