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" Writing is very cathartic for me. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Me
Very
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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 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
" 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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" 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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You
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" Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they're like extra bonuses. "
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Goals
Dreams
Always
" It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts. "
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You
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" The lyrics are the essential part in our songs. "
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Songs
Our
Lyrics
" 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
" The furthest I can see is me being 60. "
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See
Being
Furthest
" We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.' "
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Surprised
Success
Years
" I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive. "
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Pretty
Restaurant
Expensive
" 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
" We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Guards
Like
Now
" 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
" 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. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Know
Need
Be Happy
" Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool. "
Lukas Forchhammer
Cool
Father
Name
" 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
" 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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Music
Police
Done
" It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script. "
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Outside
More
Happens
" We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop. "
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Lot
Most
Soul
" 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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Sense
Sound
Year
" 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
" 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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Sleeping
House
Mom
" We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before. "
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Fan
Us
Big
" I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage. "
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Always
Stage
Performance
" '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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Music
Past
Song
" I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home. "
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