(01.10.2014)
“Tokio Hotel is the love of my life“
Berlin – Long it was quiet around Tokio Hotel. Bill and Tom Kaulitz (25) fled virtually overnight to California. There, they worked on their fourth album “Kings of Suburbia” that electro beats combined with instruments to Club music. An interview.
Why did you move to Los Angeles?
Bill Kaulitz: Because we had come to a point where everything has become Too much. We urgently needed distance from the whole Tokio Hotel madness. To At last, have time to find out what we really expect from life. For this, we had to hold our career back for a while and clear our head.
Did you find In fact the anonymity in California, after which you have longed for?
Bill Kaulitz: Yes. Initially we didn’t really move purely to Los Angeles, but had lived A little bit outside. So we could submerge completely. Especially since we were first often total at home when we went on the road.
Tom Kaulitz: We are staring here A lot less than in Germany. The Knowingness is also not necessarily the problem.
Bill Kaulitz: Exactly. It is really bad when people are always at the gate or even follow us. This was partially already something abnormal about it. In the United States, we are No more confronted with something like that.
Is there no danger so that you drop so like Britney Spears?
Bill Kaulitz: but everyone goes through crises – which is unavoidable. Questioning one’s self or one’s career. You must just To try to keep this out of the public, or the media make it a big deal. We had not pulled back anyway, without reason completely from the public eye. If we start now again correctly, it can happen, say in one and a half years: “I can No more. I need to step back, a break”
In theory you could then break up the band. Or were not created for normality?
Bill Kaulitz: I can live very well either with or without the fame. On the one hand I love to stand on the stage and make music. On the other hand I find it hard, to have no privacy. There are already moments in which I curse our success. But Tokio Hotel is the love of my life.
Would you exchange sometimes with your drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing, who are not as prominent as you?
Bill Kaulitz: Clearly, they have it here and there more than we. They are still in her hometown. The loss of privacy was never a so great theme for them. Moreover, they are really happy. They certainly would not exchange with us.
Are they really never jealous of you?
Tom Kaulitz: Everyone has thier role in the band, which has Of course evolved. In this respect, since no dispute breaks out. Envy or jealousy never had it.
I would venture to doubt that as brothers there is fighting
Bill Kaulitz: We’re fighting some really intense. When that time happens, it’s so blatant that everyone else in the room go.
Tom Kaulitz: But after at least two hours, everything is fine again.
Bill Kaulitz: Because we can Not at all imagine a separate life, basically, we are as a person. If we are separated from each other, something is missing.
But you Two want under one roof live forever, or?
Bill Kaulitz: I think we will somehow always live together. Maybe we live one day in two adjacent houses, which are connected by a tunnel.
Tom Kaulitz: Although we have not stood in the last five years on stage, we spent every day with each other.
What is your everyday life in Los Angeles today?
Bill Kaulitz: Tom is A little bit quieter than I. I am totally A lot. Actually, I’m only on the partying.
Tom Kaulitz: We have a comic rhythm. Only between 6 and 7 o’clock, we go to bed. We see the Sunrise every morning.
The interview was conducted by Dagmar Leischow.