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" The lyrics are the essential part in our songs. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Songs
Our
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I never watched any award show. "
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" I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal. "
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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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" It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script. "
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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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" '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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" The furthest I can see is me being 60. "
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" Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool. "
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Name
" I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you. "
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World
" 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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" Writing is very cathartic for me. "
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Very
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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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Know
Need
Be Happy
" We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.' "
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Years
" Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on. "
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Child
Seeing
" 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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Grit
Music
" 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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Year
" I write instead of going to the shrink! "
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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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" 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 don't know how to thank all the people listening to our music. It's so amazing to come home to my friends who resist conformity, because they're so happy that I've made 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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" 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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" I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me. "
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" The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there. "
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Little
Live
" I wish we could not ever get recognised on the streets, do no selfies, and still perform music all over the world. Unfortunately I don't think that's going to be the case, but I'm doing my best to just keep my feet on the ground and my eyes on the prize. "
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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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