Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

I feel like Drake is doing exactly what I plan on doing, just being sick for all of, what, a decade now? And just always being able to switch it up and never stay in one box.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

I run a meme type of account on Twitter; I know what my audience is looking for.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

'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.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

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.

Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X

Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.