My personality is energetic, fun, yet slightly psychotic.
Yungblud
I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I'll fight if I have to.
No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.
If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.
We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.
When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
I've always had a lot of energy and had a lot of opinions all my life - people misunderstood that about me being naughty, gobby, or different.
We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.
My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.
The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I'm left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.
I've been in love a couple times, but you never know if it's truly the one until you meet the right person.
I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.
The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.
I don't want to be liked by everyone.
Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.
I think if you stand still, you get forgotten, and I'm not here to get forgotten.
There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.
I've got ADHD, and my whole life, people thought I was some kind of troublemaker because I had all this energy.
I'm a total nutcase; a lot of people don't get me.
When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly loved it.
Rock n' roll's not dead.
I want to spread a message of positivity, not hatred.
To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.
I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.
People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.
The essence of Yungblud is connection. That's all I want to do: connect with people.
My mum and dad were always supportive of me. They always let me express myself.
People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.
I've always felt really misunderstood because I got a lot of energy, and I never conformed to a certain path.
The connection I have with my fans is so important, and I want to break the boundaries and break the barriers between an artist and a crowd. It is so important, and I learn so much through my fans, and they help me.
All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.
I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.
'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.
Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain - real showmen that put on 'a performance' every time they walk out on stage - so it's important for me to feel like I deliver that.
I remember talking about a Mozart song during a music class at school, and I said, 'I wouldn't have done it like that.' I didn't like the way the chords moved. And my teacher told me to get out.
I get tons of messages every day telling me, 'Your music has provided me with answers.'
Teachers, people, and, to be honest, some of my classmates didn't understand me. I was the person they didn't like because I would always speak my mind and had a lot of energy. I'd be bouncing around all the time, being very opinionated.
I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.
I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.
My goal is to reach as many people as possible and inspire them.
As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.
I've always been enthralled with chaos and mayhem musically, and I loved speaking out and challenging stuff, and I thought, why is my music not representing this?
The best thing for me is the amount of DMs and people hitting me up every day saying, 'Your music is providing me with answers.' That blows my mind, because that's what Alex Turner and Eminem were for me.
I don't want to be an old man in a pub singing about Margaret Thatcher.
The music I grew up listening to had a message.
All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.
That's what my song 'Medication' is about - everyone trying to make you a zombie.
I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.
I think there are loads of different types of love.
The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.
