Yung Lean Quotes

Yung Lean

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 18, 1996

I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet.

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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.

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

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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.

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I get energy from meeting people.

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I love Future. 'Turn on the Lights' is the best song ever. You can cry to it. You can relate to it.

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

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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.

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I think you shouldn't get my music confused with who I am or who we are, because Yung Lean, from the beginning, is like a character created by me. Yung Lean was everything that Jonatan wasn't. And so me, as a person, and my views on things are certainly different than Yung Lean's views, so you should definitely not get those two mixed up.

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

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

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

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My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

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

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I don't associate myself with anything. I don't associate myself with where I'm from or where I am.

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Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

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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.

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I hate it when people try to explain music. The best thing about music is that it's invisible. If you make a song and someone is like, 'Explain it,' and you explain the message, it's like - poof. It all crashes down.

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

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

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