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" The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Neighborhood
Little
Live
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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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Listening
Music
Writing
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Mother
You
Money
" I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me. "
Lukas Forchhammer
About
Life
My Life
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Sleeping
House
Mom
" We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Fan
Us
Big
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Heart
Remember
Rest
" 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
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Good
Grit
Music
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Street
Me
Be Nice
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Style
Together
" We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Lot
Most
Soul
" I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Think
I Can
Much
" We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Guards
Like
Now
" 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
Like
Myself
" The furthest I can see is me being 60. "
Lukas Forchhammer
See
Being
Furthest
" I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Good
School
Singer
" I never watched any award show. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Show
Award
Any
" I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Out
Deal
Got
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Police
Done
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Powerful
Yourself
World
" It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Top
You
Your
" We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Keep
Take Advantage
Saying
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Home
Surprise
People
" '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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Music
Past
Song
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Hat
I Am
Know
" We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.' "
Lukas Forchhammer
Surprised
Success
Years
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Want
Band
Guitar
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Life
Fame
Roots
" I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Writing
Community
Crime