Do you help each other when one wants to get to know a certain girl?

Georg: Tom is helping me.
Tom: I have to say I haven't helped him yet, but I would help out all of the guys.
Bill: His helping doesn't work.
Tom: No, but it would cost me too much money. It would work, but I'd have to put too much money on the table in order to get the girls saying "Yes, I want to meet Bill." Maybe when I keep working 10-15 years, I can afford a girlfriend for Georg.
Georg: Nah, it will take longer.
Tom: No, 10-15 years are realistic.


Do you behave differently when there are cameras around?

Bill: No, not really. You don't really realize the cameras around you anymore anyway. We've gotten used to being filmed, especially on tour. You just forget about it.
We cannot deny that some scenes had to be cut though.
But usually we are just the same than without cameras.


Would you have a pet name for your girlfriend?


Gustav: Chick. Hey chick, bring me a beer!
Bill: I think pet names are a total no-go. You catch yourself using them when you're really in love. I think I used one before on a girl too so I can't really make fun of it.
Tom: Wasn't there this very special one? Won't you tell?
Bill: That one was really embarrassing. When you are in love you do embarrassing things, and you might use pet names, but in general I don't think they are necessary.
Tom: I don't use them anyway.


What has been really embarrassing for you guys lately?

Bill & Tom: Georg!
Tom: That's what comes to my mind spontaneously.
Georg: That's something new.
Bill: No, I don't think it's that new.
Tom: Most of the time you're not really embarrassing, but more like involuntarily funny.
Bill: But that's nothing new, and actually that's what makes it embarrassing. Georg's just always...
Tom: It's embarrassing again.
Georg: Double-embarrassing. Beat that!


Are you afraid that Tokio Hotel's carreer could end soon?

Bill: No, we are not afraid. Of course you never know what's about to come and it's thrilling what every new year will bring.
2007 has been our most successful year. We accomplished the most, it was a great year for Tokio Hotel. We will always keep that in memory and I don't think this can be topped.
Of course you sometimes think about what will be when we're not that successful anymore.
Tom: In general, you should never be afraid of anything. It's like the first sex: Jump in and it will be good.
Georg: I'll keep that in mind.


Could you imagine living in a different country?

Bill: I can't imagine living Germany completely, and I don't think that I ever will.
Tom: I could imagine having my own island.
Georg: A own country. That wouldn't be bad.
Tom: That'd be great.
Bill: Yes, but... of course we all wish for a holiday home somewhere else but I couldn't move away for good.
Tom: We would always keep something Germany.
Bill: There's this special connection we have with Germany, and we'll always have that, no matter how often we are in other countries. It always feels like coming home. It always will be our home.
Georg: Even if it's a tent in the trailerpark.
Bill: As Georg has. He lives in close touch with nature.
Georg: Fishing and stuff.


have you ever said anything in an interview that was embarrassing or that you have regretted ever since?

Bill: oh, i know something! there's this interview of Tom and i in which we're totally drunk.
Tom: oh yeah.
Bill: i won't say in what year that was and how we looked like because it's really easy to find that way but anyway, we were so, so drunk-
Tom: true, that one's a bit uncomfortable.
Bill: -and that was a, that was an award-show but i won't tell which one. anyway, it was an award-show and we did this interview, totally drunk-
Georg: were you drunk? i bet you were like so young, right?
Bill: i don't know i forgot about it.
Georg: are you sure?
Bill: anyway, anyway, it's totally embarrassing because we can't even say one sentence straight and we don't finish once single sentence and constantly interrupt each other-
Tom: it's embarrassing, yeah.
Bill: ...that's pretty.. yeah. if i could, i'd have it removed, yeah.


what goes on your nerves the most about other people?

Bill: the thing i hate most is people being unpunctual.
Tom: yeah. being unpunctual but also.. this.. when you.. hypocrisy.
Bill: yeah, hypocrisy.
Tom: i hate it, when people don't say stuff directly.. i mean, i have no problem with telling Georg that i think he sucks, you can do that without like saying 'oh Georg, you're a cool guy', i mean, that'd be hypocrisy.
Bill: so hypocrisy and people making empty promises and, yeah, unpunctuality that's so bad. people who are not reliable and stuff, i totally cannot deal with that because i'm a very correct person and Tom and i are also always punctual and that's why, yeah. we don't get along with Georg right now too well.
Georg: awww.
Bill: but other than that..
Tom: about hypocrisy, there's people who said stuff like 'Bill, you're a good singer, you sing so well' and stuff and i can't stand that.
Bill: me neither. no can do.
Tom: soo not honest.
Bill: out with it already!


with what band would you like to trade places for a day?

Bill: with some band from the Maledives!
Georg: *mentions a band i can NOT make out but i WISH i knew!!*
Tom: no.
Georg: yes.
Tom: no way.
Georg: it's only a day!
Bill: but you get one day on the Maledives out of it! (note: he obviously doesn't realize that Georg and Tom are talking about something else) well, i'd be some Maledivan singer standing in some restaurant all day.
Tom: Maledivan-- ...nuh, you know, people who.. perform, and- ne?
Bill: but on the Maledives.
Georg: meh.
Tom: well. i think the Maledives are nice but i've never been there. i can't judge that but oh well.


have you ever made use of the coupons for parachute-jumping you got from the Bravo?

Bill: now, for real and out with the truth. i want to do it but Tom is afraid. that's really the way it is because Tom says, that he doesn't want to rely on a small bagpack with his life and he- admit it!
Tom: it's ridiculous. totally.
Georg: but i gotta agree with Tom.
Bill: no, really! i'd like to do it but i didn't have the time yet but i guess i'll just have to do it without Tom. i'll just jump twice and takes Tom's coupon too and then i do it 2 times.
Georg: but it's, i mean, you gotta admit, there's a 50/50-
Bill: yeah, you can go with me, you can go with me!
Georg: there's a 50/50 chance of the parachute opening.
Bill: no, bullshit.
Georg: that's gambling with life.
Tom: yeah.
Bill: total bullshit.
Georg: you could just as well play russian roulette.
Bill: well, i'd like to do it once and i will.


what do you do with all the clothes you don't wear anymore?

Bill: well, i keep everything, i mean, we've been talking about it the other day-
Georg: we are messies.
Bill: yeah. we can't throw anything out! no, really, i mean concerning clothes, it's really that way, i still got the very first t-shirt from the DDM video and i got, like, all leather-jackets from all videos and performances and so on. i really got a whole shop at home.
Tom: i got almost everything still as well.
Bill: it's connected to memories, you know? it's like you got a memory connected to the first t-shirt and jacket of the first single and stuff and that's why you don't throw it out because there's a piece of band-history connected to it. well. yeah.
Georg: a bit of stuff got auctioned off too, ne?
All: yeah.
Tom: like the suits from theeee-
Gustav: Übers Ende der Welt
Tom: -video. i really wanted to wear that one but you know. gotta make compromises sometimes. that's life.


would you tell everyone if you had a girlfriend?

Bill: i think we'd totally tell because, um, i think it'd be really unfair all of... all of those people if you didn't say it and even a girlfriend wouldn't probably play along with that because if you really have a steady girlfriend, i think she will probably want you to admit it and that's why one should do it, we'd tell.


how'd you react if your fans would start harrassing your girlfriends?

Bill: i don't think our fans would do that. i think if you have a girlfriend and make it public, everyone should accept that and i think everyone will. right?
Tom: *nods*
Bill: yep.


what kind of of mishaps happen at concerts?

Bill: like 10.000 kinds of stuff. like once, i smacked myself down on the stage and once we almost all fell off the stage because we stood on this plate that slipped and we all ran to the front and-
Tom: i wasn't part of that.
Bill: you totally were. and anyway, we almost fell off the stage and once i- oh, what am i saying- like 20 times i stumbled over stuffed animals and kinda fell over and-
Tom: if you'd fall over for real, we'd have to break off the concert.
Bill: - and i split my lip several times already and then i have-
Georg: it's because you're rocking so hard on stage.
Bill: that's why! because i'm rocking so hard on stage and that's why i split my lip several times already.
Georg: but that's not a mishap.
Bill: other than that, my in-ear-monitoring fell off or it broke down and.. yeah.. what else can happen.. Gustav fell off his stool once.
Gustav: hm?
Bill: did you fall off the podest too?
Tom: no...
Gustav: you WISH, i know it, but i have to disappoint you.
Georg: do tell us once you're planning on doing it though.
Bill: okay, so that didn't happen with the podest.


are you jealous?

Bill: yes, i'm totally jealous.
Tom: no, i'm not jealous-
Bill: you are TOTALLY jealous!
Tom: -i think, well, i think that part of a good relationship is everone being able to try out further while being in the relationship to check whether the current relationship is really the real deal. well, i think, you know, i think that's the only way how you can be sure that it's a good relationship if you can try out other stuff every now and then.
Georg: ...and check out the market.
Tom: and check out the market, i mean, it's like with a mobile phone, basically, ne? you got a mobile phone and think it's a good one but then another mobile phone comes on the market and that's better.
Georg: *hyena laugh*
Tom: ...well, yeah.
Bill: well, with me, i'm extremely jealous, really, really jealous. i'm also totally monogamous. once you're together, that's the way it's supposed to be and that's part of it. i mean, that's what keeps a relationship alive to be able to say to the other person 'it sucks that you just looked after that guy over there!'-
Gustav: *pretends to fall asleep and snores*
Bill: *hits Tom* -i think that's part of it and i'm very jealous. like, pathological jealous. *realizes that GUSTAV made the snoring noises before, not Tom* ... yes.
Gustav: huh?



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