Top 40 Yung Lean Quotes

I’m not really into ‘My Little Pony.’ I’m not a ‘Brony,’ just to clear that up.

It’s kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.

I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac’s at McDonald‘s, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.

I’d like to live in a house in Miami and make music, or Brooklyn.

I’m not a very macho guy.

I just make videos and stuff. There’s not much more to it than that. I’m a musician trying to express myself.

Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.

I don’t want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.

I’ve always had jobs with hierarchies – wherever I worked, like McDonald’s, or cleaning toilets. It’s always been hard.

I’m really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can’t ride the subway… I still ride the subway, but there’s always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.

I don’t know what I wear. I don’t think much about fashion.

Scandinavian rap started in the ’90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing.

In the U.S., everything is big – it’s like looking through a magnifying glass.

I’m building an anarchistic society from the ground up.

I don’t like being told what to do.

I think people are scared of progress and change.

When I first broke out, everyone was like, ‘OK, so is this a joke?’ They had to wait until I sold out shows before newspapers started writing about it.

Yung Lean is like water: he‘s always changing due to the temperature, how he’s feeling.

I was in a mental hospital. That’s all I wanna say. I don’t wanna say anything more.

If it was the ’70s, I’d be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

Even when I was a kid, I thought of myself as a celebrity.

I get energy from meeting people.

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

Ever since I was a kid, I had the urge of expressing myself in any way. Like many kids, you want try on different clothes, different looks. I was kinda punky for a while: I had makeup under my eyes. Then I started wearing more baggy stuff.

I’ve always been an outsider everywhere I go – I don’t fit in with the Swedish rap community or the American rap community. But who cares?

I moved out of my parents‘ house to a place that’s more like the projects, because I’m living by myself.

I’m like Loki in Nordic mythology: one day I’ll be a woman and the next day a snake.

I’m in my own little world. I don’t get invited into galas; I don’t meet other people that I don’t find interesting. I hang with my friends all the time, and we do exactly what we like.

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.

As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a little more naturally for me.

I don’t think I could live anywhere else but Stockholm.

I do love my Gucci slides. I wear them inside. I’m like an old Russian man who wears slides in his house.

After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I’ll settle down.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

You can’t really run from your roots.

I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us – they think that we’re trying to be a part of the American culture, like all these Swedish kids that love America. We rap in English, so I guess there’s something, but we’re very Swedish, actually.

I met Fredo Santana three days before he passed. We were in the studio in Los Angeles, actually, listening to ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin,’ and he’s a great human being.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I’d write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song ‘Hurt‘ in one go at the school studio.