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" If I moved to L.A., I wouldn't move to a ghetto neighborhood. I'd move to some posh, fancy place. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Neighborhood
Fancy
Ghetto
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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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" A part of me understands why a mother is equally proud of all her children, but that little boy inside me just wants my mom to say, out loud but even just to me, 'I'm a little bit prouder of you.' "
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" I write instead of going to the shrink! "
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" '7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing. "
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" We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now. "
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" We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.' "
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" Writing is very cathartic for me. "
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" 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. "
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" I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school. "
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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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" 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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You
Money
" Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool. "
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Father
Name
" 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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Hat
I Am
Know
" What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system. "
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Tough
Angry
" 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. "
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You
Me
" 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. "
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Love
" I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun. "
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Think
I Can
Much
" Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music. "
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Pop Music
Music
Album
" That's why I can't listen to a whole record of Adele's. She has the most amazing voice, but people must have convinced her they just want to hear love songs. "
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Love
Want
People
" 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. "
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Father
" 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 lyrics are the essential part in our songs. "
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Lyrics
" I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have. "
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Why
Never
" I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive. "
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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 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. "
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Roots
" It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do. "
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Kind
Said
Need
" It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts. "
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You
Your
" Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary. "
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Our