Quotes by danish authors

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. Lukas Forchhammer

Home Winter Song Writing Old First Think Back Rap About Songs Wrote Boy Years Began Up Growing Growing Up

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. Lukas Forchhammer

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. Lukas Forchhammer

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

Love Writing Love Songs Never Songs Know Fancy Why

I write instead of going to the shrink! Lukas Forchhammer

Write Instead Going Shrink

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. Lukas Forchhammer

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

Music Changed Dre Modern Pop Pop Music Dr Album

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

Soul Jazz Most Genres Hip-Hop Mix Lot Pop Agree

'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. Lukas Forchhammer

Music You Song Past Own Say Releasing Record Eats Could Years Person Get Children Keep Need

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. Lukas Forchhammer

The furthest I can see is me being 60. Lukas Forchhammer

Me Furthest See Being

Writing is very cathartic for me. Lukas Forchhammer

Me Writing Cathartic Very

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

Life Me My Life About Write Passing Huge Blow Happens Dad

I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online. Mads Mikkelsen

Time You Facebook Enough See Someone Online Only Never New Know Call New Friends Got How Lot Friends Want Even

I can never wink at the audience. Mads Mikkelsen

Wink Never Audience

I don't necessarily prefer playing villains. I know a lot of people say they are more fun, but if the scriptwriter has done their work well, you can find something realistic in a villain and find the mistakes in a hero - it's all down to the writing. Mads Mikkelsen

Work You People Writing Hero Mistakes Realistic Down Say Find People Say Something More Know Well Lot Done Prefer Fun Villain Villains Necessarily Playing

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they're not frightened, you're not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, 'I think you come in, and you're really sexy'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking. Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin. Mads Mikkelsen

Actors are a race. Mads Mikkelsen

Race Actor

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual. Mads Mikkelsen

Big Visual Because Big Fan Fan Reason Film