Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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
Lukas Forchhammer

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.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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
Lukas Forchhammer

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.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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
Lukas Forchhammer

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.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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
Lukas Forchhammer

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
Lukas Forchhammer

I never watched any award show.

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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

Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Forchhammer

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.