Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I don't actually personally get off on guitar music.

I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.

As a music lover, I always adore when artists write about what's currently happening in their life. I find that the most interesting to listen to, just because I am extremely nosey.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so I imitated it. I used to write songs about guys cheating. Could you imagine!

My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they're more upbeat and generic. Dad's songs are 'a little too sad' for them, which just means that they're harder to understand.

I didn't take up 'Chinnanchiru Kiliye' thinking I should continue on these lines from now on.

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

There's no formula for choosing songs. I've beeen lucky over the years. You just hear it and you do it.

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.

About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Indradhanush', which speaks about the seven colours, equating each with emotions that we as human beings experience.

I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

Coming from an R&B background, I was like, 'I'm gonna make slow jams.'