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.
— Yungblud
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.
The music I grew up listening to had a message.
I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.
If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.
The essence of Yungblud is connection. That's all I want to do: connect with people.
The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.
I think there are loads of different types of love.
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'm a total nutcase; a lot of people don't get me.
I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.
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.
I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.
No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.
I want to spread a message of positivity, not hatred.
I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.
People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.
I don't want to be an old man in a pub singing about Margaret Thatcher.
I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.
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.
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 don't want to preach to anyone, because I'm not.
I love jewellery and stuff, so when I first got signed, I spent it on a load of bling.
That's what my song 'Medication' is about - everyone trying to make you a zombie.
People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.
I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.
As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.
When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly loved it.
Rosa Parks is rock and roll.
The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I'm just a bratty, gobby idiot.
All my life I've felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.
All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.
I've wanted to play Lollapalooza all my life.
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 think if you stand still, you get forgotten, and I'm not here to get forgotten.
I don't want to preach to anyone, because if someone preaches to me, I just turn off - I've been preached to my whole life.
I've always felt really misunderstood because I got a lot of energy, and I never conformed to a certain path.
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.
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.
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 get tons of messages every day telling me, 'Your music has provided me with answers.'
There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.
I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.
Every show I play, 10 or 10,000 people, I want it to be the same one.
My mum and dad were always supportive of me. They always let me express myself.
I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.
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 a massive Donny Rovers fan.
I love what Drake does.
