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Lukas Forchhammer, is quoted 57 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Fancy, Love Songs, Mix and Neighborhood.

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I never watched any award show.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

The furthest I can see is me being 60.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.

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

I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have.

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

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

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

We're surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of '7 Years.'

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

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

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

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

I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun.

If I moved to L.A., I wouldn't move to a ghetto neighborhood. I'd move to some posh, fancy place.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.

I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.

In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I get emotionally spent answering questions about my dead father and my criminal friends and my upbringing in a hippie environment in a marginalized community.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

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.

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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