61 Quotes by Lukas Forchhammer

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

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

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

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

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.