On a par with Tokio Hotel

Subject: On a par with Tokio Hotel Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:13 pm

On Tuesday Tokio Hotel will check in at the Wiener Stadthalle. The following interview was conducted by three 14-year-old girls.

What do you associate with Austria, which memories do you have about the country?

BILL: Definitely good concerts, we had a lot of great gigs in Austria. And Austria was the first country in which our first single "Durch den Monsun" became #1 in the Charts.

How do austrian fans differ from fans from other countries?

BILL: It doesn't depend on the country, it depends on every single fan. Our fans are always faithful and energetic. At the North, at the South. There are hardly any temper differences.

Not long ago, you released your third album "Humanoid". How does it differ from your last albums?

BILL: We tried out some new things, our songs got more electronic. For the new album we also took up time and we didn't make ourselves pressure. Tom and me coproduced the album for the first time. That was a totally different experience for us. I think that "Humanoid" sounds totally different than the other albums. But you still hear that it's Tokio Hotel.

When do you conceive something as inhuman?

BILL: Machines and roboters above all. Everything, which gets invented by humans.

TOM: I think it's inhuman when people are stingy or don't grudge others anything. What's also completely bad for me: If humans kill animals.

You have a great many fans. On the other hand, there are people who don't like you at all. How do you deal with that?

BILL: That's a thing which already has been like that since the beginning of our career. We grew up with the fact that people don't like us. But we also have to owe the people, who don't like us, a lot. That made us famous.

You are under way a lot, isn't the private life a bit short-changed then?

TOM: Absolutely! We don't have a private life any more. That's the price which you have to pay. That's simply not a normal job.

Is there anything that you miss?

BILL: When we are on tour, we miss our own beds, our families, our friends and our dogs.

Georg is the only one of you who has a girfriend. Are there any news from you, Bill, Tom and Gustav?

BILL/TOM: Unfortunately there aren't any news. WE believe in love at first sight. Especially Bill would look for a solid relationship. But both of us don't have any exact imagination how our dreamgirl should look like. Georg really can consider himself fortunate! But of course we'll look around when we're in Austria.

The music business is of course really exhausting. Do you regret it sometimes to be so famous?

TOM: Of course there are such situations but with 15 years we decided to be famous, then you continue going this way, there's no return.

What do you think you would do today, if it wouldn't have worked with the music?

BILL: I think we would make music though. We were just jobless musicians who would play in clubs.

TOM: (laughs) Or I would earn my money with porno films.

Bill and Tom, you are twins and virtually together the whole day, don't you annoy each other sometimes?

TOM: No, actually not. We are identical twins. We are very near to each other and we also know everything about the other one. Of course we argue with each other sometimes or even fight, nevertheless we are one person.

Bill, could you imagine a model career after your performance on the catwalk?

BILL: I couldn't imagine to do it full-time, but as a sideline. If I still get offers. It has always been fun for me to model. Or to work with great photgraphers as well, that would be amazing.

You are chancellor for a day. What would you change about the laws?

BILL: We'd change a lot about the school system and launch an unified system. We'd look more closely at teachers, mind the quality.

TOM: I would halve the taxes.

Where do you see yourselves in five years?

BILL: Probably we're still under way that much like now and still play concerts.

TOM: We'll probably have deeper rings under the eyes but still be under way on the entire world and release albums.