Quotes from Lil Nas X

I'm like Twitter-famous, but in real life. Instead of your mentions, it's real people coming up to you. People shake your hand instead of liking your tweets.

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

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

'Old Town Road''s the peak of me doing whatever I want to do with music. I was like, 'This one is special,' and I promoted it heavily on my account on Twitter.

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

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

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

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

'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When I first started, I wasn't trying to go viral. I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy.

I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.