Yungblud

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

Every show I play, 10 or 10,000 people, I want it to be the same one.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

When I was 10, I had dyed red hair, and I used to paint my nails - I think my mum secretly loved it.

I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.

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

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.

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

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

I've wanted to play Lollapalooza all my life.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

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 want it to have a message. I want it to empower people to say what they think.

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.

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.

I write music about what's going on in my head, what I'm angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.

Rock n' roll's not dead.

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.

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.

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 don't want to be an old man in a pub singing about Margaret Thatcher.

I think if you stand still, you get forgotten, and I'm not here to get forgotten.

I just want to say what I think and encourage others to say what they think.

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

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.

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.

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.

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

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

I think there are loads of different types of love.

I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I'll fight if I have to.

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

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

People turn up at my shows with black hearts on their knuckles, waving their hands in the air like flags.

I'm a total nutcase; a lot of people don't get me.

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 want to spread a message of positivity, not hatred.

As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.

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 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.

My mum and dad were always supportive of me. They always let me express myself.

No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in.

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

I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

I grew up on rock and roll like My Chemical Romance, who were actually genuinely talking about and saying things.

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

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