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.

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean

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.

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean

I don't like party music. I like emotional music.

Yung Lean

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.

Yung Lean

I don't like being told what to do.

Yung Lean

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.

Yung Lean

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.

Yung Lean

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

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

Yung Lean

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

Yung Lean

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.

Yung Lean

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean

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.

Yung Lean

I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil Wayne.

Yung Lean

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

Yung Lean