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" 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. "

Lukas Forchhammer

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" The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong. "

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

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

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" '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. "

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

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" 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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" We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now. "

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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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" '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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" I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive. "

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" 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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" The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet. "

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" I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Writing is very cathartic for me. "

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

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

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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 write instead of going to the shrink! "

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" The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there. "

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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. "

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