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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.
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I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.
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Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on.
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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.
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I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun.
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Writing is very cathartic for me.
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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.
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In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.
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I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.
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We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.
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'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.
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We've had to be escorted out of venues, things like that. We get security guards now.
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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.
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I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.
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I never watched any award show.
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The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.
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A part of me understands why a mother is equally proud of all her children, but that little boy inside me just wants my mom to say, out loud but even just to me, 'I'm a little bit prouder of you.'
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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.
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The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.
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I write instead of going to the shrink!
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Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.
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I wish we could not ever get recognised on the streets, do no selfies, and still perform music all over the world. Unfortunately I don't think that's going to be the case, but I'm doing my best to just keep my feet on the ground and my eyes on the prize.
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I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have.
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The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there.