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" I write instead of going to the shrink! "
Lukas Forchhammer
Instead
I Write
Shrink
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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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" 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. "
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" Here in America, the big-brand collaborations kind of signify how far you've gotten. So in that sense, it's a giant kudos to us that we, within the first year, get to be the first ones to be the launchers of this Pepsi Sound Drop. "
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