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" I don't play any instruments. I don't produce. I don't know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team - otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song. "

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" My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration. "

Lukas Forchhammer

Frustration

You

" I never watched any award show. "

" When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood. "

" It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts. "

" What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system. "

Lukas Forchhammer

Tough

Angry

" Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music. "

" I remember getting a toilet in our house. I remember sharing a bedroom with my sister, and my little sister was sleeping in my mom and dad's room. "

" 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. "

" When we perform music at TV shows, we always try to do something that's not scripted because anything that's a surprise for the audience and the crew and the other performers, it works better on camera and for the people back home, too. "

" When my dad died, my world crumbled. "

" The furthest I can see is me being 60. "

" Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world. "

" I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private. "

Lukas Forchhammer

Conversation

Myself

" I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have. "

" Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they're like extra bonuses. "

" 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. "

" I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot. "

" In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me. "

Lukas Forchhammer

Gave

Early

" Writing is very cathartic for me. "

Lukas Forchhammer

Very

Cathartic

" We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now. "

" I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you. "

" 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. "

" I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life. "

" I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school. "

" I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun. "

" I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here. "

" '7 Years' seems to have attracted a lot of age groups - people seem to see their own lives in the song, and it's great to see so many people reacting in that way to it. "

" Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool. "

" Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary. "

" We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before. "

Lukas Forchhammer

Fan

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