“I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us - they think that we're trying to be a part of the American culture, like all these Swedish kids that love America. We rap in Engl...”
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“I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us - they think that we're trying to be a part of the American culture, like all these Swedish kids that love America. We rap in Engl...”
“Ever since I was a kid, I had the urge of expressing myself in any way. Like many kids, you want try on different clothes, different looks. I was kinda punky for a while: I had makeup under...”
“I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.”
“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.,...”
“I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.”
“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 -...”
“I do love my Gucci slides. I wear them inside. I'm like an old Russian man who wears slides in his house.”
“I've always had jobs with hierarchies - wherever I worked, like McDonald's, or cleaning toilets. It's always been hard.”
“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 supermarket...”
“I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil Wayne.”
“I'm not a very macho guy.”
“In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.”
“I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.”
“I'm not really into 'My Little Pony.' I'm not a 'Brony,' just to clear that up.”
“I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.”
“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' i...”
“After ten albums, I can reevaluate my life. Maybe then I'll settle down.”
“Scandinavian rap started in the '90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing.”
“Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.”
“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 phot...”