I don't want to be liked by everyone.
— Yungblud
Now when I step onstage, I have this hour when I can just be completely myself, just a massive ball of energy. Sometimes I get so lost in the performance, people look a little frightened - but that's a good thing.
'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.
Rock n' roll's not dead.
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?
My generation is so intelligent.
Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.
I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I'll fight if I have to.
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.
I've got ADHD, and my whole life, people thought I was some kind of troublemaker because I had all this energy.
I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.
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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 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.
We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.
I want it to have a message. I want it to empower people to say what they think.
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.
My personality is energetic, fun, yet slightly psychotic.
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.
My goal is to reach as many people as possible and inspire them.
When you find new genres of music, you take ownership of them.
We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.
