A biography for Luke Hemmingshasn’t been written yet.
“I've always felt like writing and creating music is similar to therapy, because you're spending days, weeks, months reflecting on yourself and your life and trying to process everything and express those feelings out loud. It can be incredibly cathartic and healing.”
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“We decided to self-title it '5 Seconds of Summer' because it really represents who we are and who we want to be as a band. Working on the different songs - writing, recording and watching them all come together - has been one of the most incredible experiences we've had as musicians and we are so proud of how it has turned out.”
“For this second album, which was written in about three months, we knew exactly who we were and what we wanted to do.”
“People thought we were making it up the whole 'We met at school thing.' That was half the reason people called us a boy band.”
“There's no fear in me that the band is coming to an end.”
“I'd come to our shows just to pick up girls.”
“It's a different experience putting something out on your own when you've been doing something else for so long.”
“We are all human and all make mistakes, sometimes we hurt the ones we love and inevitably, ourselves in the process.”
“We have this determination to keep going and keep pushing ourselves creatively.”
“We're not the new anything. We're the first 5 Seconds of Summer.”
“My dad loves Pearl Jam so I had to like them as well.”
“I've had a lot of hurdles to overcome in my musical journey, but since coming onto the scene with 5SOS, we've really had to fight to be respected as genuine artists.”
“When we first started as a band we knew we could all sing and we took harmonies from Mayday Parade which doesn't seem like a good harmony reference but it was for us. We wanted to take harmonies from Mayday Parade and be a guitar playing band.”
“We're not going to write about politics.”
“What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase.”
“I dress in clothing that makes me happy, I make the music I want, I wear glitter and make-up, I express myself better, I don't feel boxed in. It's pretty freeing.”
“You've got to be this massive entity on stage, and just bring people in and make them have a good time.”
“You write different songs when you're 16 or 17 to when you're 22 or 23.”
“The first gig we ever played was at a pub in Sydney called the Annandale Hotel to approximately 12 people.”