Quotes from Yung Lean

I can retire at a good age and still feel like I've done something.

You can't really run from your roots.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

I think people are scared of progress and change.

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 had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't like political rappers.

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

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