A biography for Luke Hemmingshasn’t been written yet.
“I think as a teen who was thrust into the public eye pretty quickly, I got overwhelmed easily and felt constant pressure to be a certain type of person.”
“I think our fans were the same age as us when we came out. I think they grew up with us.”
“Like Good Charlotte, Green Day had a huge influence on me. Just the way they play live and the energy they bring to a show is incredible. They can really command a whole stadium.”
“When you're driven to your absolute limit, working 14 hours for 14 days straight, you have to know what you want, and not listen to all this other crap outside.”
“Everyone wants to know everything that you do when you're in a job like this.”
“We came together in such an organic way. We felt we had something special even when we were starting in the outskirts of Western Sydney.”
“A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge.”
“At primary school I was in a world of my own and often I would get told off for being too loud, Then when I was around six, I woudn't go to class. I would be in school , but running around the playground having a great time while everyone else was in lessons.”
“Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.”
“We never tried to be anything we weren't.”
“Those American '90s bands shaped us.”
“Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are. It's all pretty similar reasons why they're big.”
“If there's a problem we can talk to anyone in the band. There's other people around us. Everyone in the band are on the same level. We know and help each other.”
“Calm' speaks on a journey through a young man's life, for better or for worse.”
“I was chubby.”
“I'd want to play the Sydney Opera House.”
“I had the Foo Fighters' 'Live at Hyde Park' DVD, and my dad had the AC/DC box set, and I used to watch them all the time.”
“Wow. Debuting No. 1 on the ARIA charts on my first solo release means more than I could ever express.”
“I love being in the band and I love being the fourth member of 5SOS, but someone I've seen do something separate well is Brandon Flowers from The Killers. I love that he has a place where he can go. As a career I like that a lot; it just seems like a creative place that he can keep going back to.”
“We're not trying to be anything that we're not.”