Quotes from Lil Nas X

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have my name, and I have a growing fan base, so I'm gonna do whatever I want.

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

But the one thing I'll always know is that people don't know what they want until they get it. They didn't know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Yeah, with 'NASARATI,' that was my first project. I really worked literally three days on it, writing on the beats and putting it together. I'm not saying that I don't love the mixtape, but it was really my first, first move in rap. I tried to make sure everything sound different, so you hear no two songs and think they sound alike.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.