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" Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool. "
Lukas Forchhammer
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" The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there. "
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" I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime. "
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" If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity. "
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" The furthest I can see is me being 60. "
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" In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me. "
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" I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band. "
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" We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people. "
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" Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing. "
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" We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement. "
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" We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.' "
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" I grew up with nothing, and I know that I don't need anything to be happy. We were wearing second-hand clothing and eating leftovers, and I was so happy. Five-star hotels and private pick-ups hasn't changed that. "
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" I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead. "
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