Words matter. These are the best Lukas Forchhammer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The furthest I can see is me being 60.
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.
It’s very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.
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.
I never watched any award show.
We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before.
Graham was my father’s second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool.
The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.
I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Dre’s ‘2001’ album changed modern pop music.
Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.
I write instead of going to the shrink!
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.
We don’t take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.
What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.
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.
It’s always more fun when something happens outside of a script.
Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I’ve got going on.
We mix a lot of genres – soul, pop, jazz – but we most agree on hip-hop.
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.
When my dad died, my world crumbled.
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 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.
I write about what happens in my life – and my dad’s passing was a huge blow to me.
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.
I bought a restaurant – that was pretty expensive.
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.
I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn’t a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
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.
We’re surprised, ecstatic, vibrant and exultant about the success of ‘7 Years.’
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.
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 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.
If I moved to L.A., I wouldn’t move to a ghetto neighborhood. I’d move to some posh, fancy place.
I don’t know why, but I don’t fancy writing love songs; I never have.
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.
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 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.
I don’t think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun.
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.
‘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.