And see “7 Years” is like a perfect window into our world because you get to hear
about the criminal guys, you get to hear about my father, you get to hear about dreams, hopes
and ambitions and then you have a song that is hookless, which I kind of find fascinating.
Maybe it’s all a hook.
But yeah, my father was such a big inspiration in my life that I couldn’t let it go.
I was very, very sick and tired of every single one of my guys in the studio this one day, so I was basically being
an asshole.
So I went and laid down on the couch and was going to adamantly take a nap, and Rizzy Rizzy,
one of the producers, came into the living room where I was sleeping and he just started
playing the piano.
He was playing the [singings the melody].
And then I just jumped off the couch singing, “Once I was 7 years old.”
We ended up dreaming up the second half of my life or everything that hasn’t happened
so far.
But then what we write up in 7 years, traveling around the world, selling our music, happened.
My boys call me the little magician.
I say things, write them down and then they happen.
But I think that’s all a coincidence though.
My mom never told me “Go get yourself some friends or you’ll be lonely.”
My dad never told me “Get yourself a wife or you’ll be lonely.”
That is basically two sentences that I derive off of my parents’ way of having friends
and my parents way of being a couple.
My parents way of being parents.
I think I smoked my first blunt when I was 12.
I'm from a neighborhood called Christiania, Copenhagen. It’s an army base that was abandoned
in 1970 and got squatted in 1971 by homeless people, hippies, vagrants and junkies and
criminals.
So I grew up in a neighborhood with no police force, no street lights, no cars, no leashes
on the dogs.
Police would come in and beat the hell out of people.
And when you were 10 years old and you see people getting their arms broken and their
faces smashed and you remember... like when I smell tear gas, I remember my kindergarten
times.
My grandfather died when I was in Argentina so that was my first male role model that I lost
and it really opened up...like then when my father died it opened up new level of
writing just when I got my daughter, 11 weeks ago, it opened up a new level of writing.
And yeah I wrote more than 700 pages of lyrics in five months, around about
300 songs, not very good songs but I have a theory that you have to
write the wrong songs before you can write the right songs.
Without my guys, I would be another solo singer acting like a fucking prick on stage, and I
just don’t want to be that guy.
Some of my friends got shot.
Some of my friends died of overdoses and stuff like that and some of my friends are in and
out of jail seeking glory.
My father died of a heart attack when he was 61-years-old in 2012 and that was what you
can call a cataclysmic event in the life of Lukas Forchhammer.
Yeah, he was my biggest friend and inspiration and if I had had a weaker father, I would be
in jail now."
Once I was 7 years old.
Jazz hands.