Yung Lean
Musician
1996-07-18
Quotes by Yung Lean
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I'm like Loki in Nordic mythology: one day I'll be a woman and the next day a snake.
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I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't ride the subway... I still ride the subway, but there's always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.
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I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet.
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I don't think I could live anywhere else but Stockholm.
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When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.
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Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.
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We can be a little less organized in Stockholm; it's not really that serious. And on the White Marble tour in Europe - I don't think there's as much hardcore fans as in the U.S. In the U.S., it's like this whole celebrity culture.
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I've always had jobs with hierarchies - wherever I worked, like McDonald's, or cleaning toilets. It's always been hard.
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I guess I'm just proud that I kept on working, not becoming just a viral hit.
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It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.
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