60 Quotes by Yung Lean

I hate it when people try to explain music. The best thing about music is that it's invisible. If you make a song and someone is like, 'Explain it,' and you explain the message, it's like - poof. It all crashes down.

In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

I'm building an anarchistic society from the ground up.

I think people are scared of progress and change.

When I first broke out, everyone was like, 'OK, so is this a joke?' They had to wait until I sold out shows before newspapers started writing about it.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I get energy from meeting people.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.