Quotes from Yungblud

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

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 admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

I get tons of messages every day telling me, 'Your music has provided me with answers.'

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.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

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I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

When I went out to America, and someone wanted to sign me and invest in me, that was a big moment because, all my life, people have been trying to tell me to be different to what I was.

From a young age, I was always very transparent, and that's why the kids' mums didn't like me. I would tell you if I didn't like your beans on toast.

My personality is energetic, fun, yet slightly psychotic.

That's what my song 'Medication' is about - everyone trying to make you a zombie.

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.

'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.

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.

The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.

I've always felt really misunderstood because I got a lot of energy, and I never conformed to a certain path.

I think there are loads of different types of love.

I would listen to artists like My Chemical Romance, Eminem, Busta Rhymes, Blink-182, Paramore... all these bands were so unafraid of being themselves. They talked about their problems and what was going on in their heads. It grabbed and latched on to me, and I felt like I could do that, too.

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?

I love jewellery and stuff, so when I first got signed, I spent it on a load of bling.

I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.

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.

My generation is so intelligent.