Top 33 Lil Nas X Quotes

I’m always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.

Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn’t make you a fan.

I told college I was gonna take a semester off, but I knew I was never going back. I felt like the walls were closing in on me.

Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can’t no more’ basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it’s with you.

In 2017, I enjoyed my time on the Internet more than doing things in real life.

I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.

I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets – that was, like, a plus.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don’t care no more.

I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels.

But with country trap, I in no way want to take credit for that. I believe Young Thug would be one of the biggest pioneers in that.

I was just trying to fit into a certain spectrum. Just like, basic rap.

I’m a fan of all genres of music. I have a few country songs I like. I’m not gonna say I’m a huge country fan, but, you know, I listen around.

I was doing good in school, but I didn’t want to do school anymore.

I’m not, like – what’s the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

In my music, I’m never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.

When I started to make music I wasn’t as serious at first.

I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a ‘lil’ in front of his name, and that’s funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.

Twitter can make a lot of things happen if you get enough retweets.

I was always making memes, and now I have music.

TikTok helped me change my life. TikTok brought my song to several different audiences at once.

I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.

I believe whenever you’re trying something new, it’s always going to get some kind of bad reception.

My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can’t force myself to write to a beat that I’m not immediately loving.

When I first started to do music, I was kind of doing what I thought people would want me to do.

The thing is that when I’m making music, I’m not really chasing that sound – the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

And whenever I do step away from the Internet or the music too long, it’s like I have to slowly get back into myself to get back into the groove.

I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.

I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don’t really care too much about what other people think of you.

I’m from Atlanta, but I don’t really consider myself an ‘Atlanta rapper.’

My dad’s name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

‘Old Town Road’ came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

People come in because they like ‘Old Town Road.’ They’ll find out that I’m just not going to stick to that.