Top 40 Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

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.

The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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’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.

It’s always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

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

Writing is very cathartic for me.

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

When my dad died, my world crumbled.

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.

Dr. Dre’s ‘2001’ album changed modern pop music.

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 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.

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.

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

I never watched any award show.

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.

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.

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.

I bought a restaurant – that was pretty expensive.

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

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.

Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I’ve got going on.

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.

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.

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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