After their huge success in Europe and in the US it’s time to take the four boys of Tokio Hotel seriously and not to dismiss them as a Teen-Band. ‘MISS’ interviewed the twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz and talked with them about girls, brotherly love and having success as a drug.

 

Doesn’t the fact of how successful you already are scare you?

 

Tom: It doesn’t scare us. For a German Band it’s not natural to be this successful. We’re rather proud than scared.

 

When did being a celebrity disappoint you for the first time?

 

Bill: There are a lot of things against which we still fight in the music business. Rules, that other people want to impress on us. Or when we read the first articles about us in the newspapers, which stated things we didn’t even say. As a young person you’re overwhelmed with all this, but we learned to cope with it.

 

A known tabloid printed some vacation pictures of you. Do things like that violate your privacy?

 

Bill: The line has been crossed to 100% when this happens! I’m still mad about this. We also try to make their – the people who were in charge this lives as difficult as possible. That’s such a thing which I’ll never get used to.

 

What was the most absurd thing that’s ever been written about you?

 

Bill: From suicide in a hotel room ’til… – it’s hard to say, I think almost everything’s been written about us by now.

 

Bill, you once stated that you hate a daily routine. Isn’t playing in a Band by now also a routine for you?

 

Bill: Sure, there are some processes which are a bit boring, but there’s never a dull moment in this job. You never know how a day will end – so it’s the most multifaceted I can think of.

 

In contrary to school, where you’ve been a real troublemaker. Where did you get this early self-confidence from?

 

Bill: We didn’t get along with the people. We came back from school and said that we never wanted to go there again. Going to school was the most horrendous thing for us. We got in trouble with out teachers and constantly got transferred because of disciplinary reasons. But also our appearance didn’t make our life easier. Just: We didn’t want to pretend being someone other than what we are. That’s why we dressed how we wanted, and this in the deepest province – you kind of feel like an alien. The self-confidence has always been there because we were together. That’s why the other kids never catches us alone to beat the crap out of us.

 

You experienced your first kiss with the same girl. Have you ever been jealous of the other?

 

Tom: You have to ask Bill this question, because I was always the first one to get the girl (laughs).

 

Bill: We never fought about girls.

 

Tom: And we never really fell in love with the same girl.

 

Bill: There’s no one who could separate us, no person that could be more important than our relationship. Sure, we fight, Tom and I are both very self-confident and stubborn. Exactly because of our similar personalty we often clash. No one of us wants to cave in. When we start to fight the others leave us alone and get out of the room.

 

You constantly interrupt each other while talking…

 

Bill: It’s hard for the others to intervene when Tom and I talk with each other. Our friends accustomed to talk as loudly as us and to interrupt us when we’re talking, because they have no other chance to get noticed when we’re talking.

 

You’re living together in Hamburg, so you sort of spend 24/7 together. Don’t you annoy each other?

 

Tom: We’re together for 24 hours a day, but also not really because we sleep in separate rooms. But it doesn’t annoy us. Everyone always says: Doesn’t it annoy you to spend 24/7 together and things like ‘What if one of you’ll have a girlfriend’ or ‘What will you do if one of you wants to move into an other city’. We aren’t asking those questions ourselves, because it has always been clear to us that we’ll stay together. It’s a special bond which identical twins have. It’s hard to describe it, actually we’re one person. When I would think about moving, it would be clear for me that Bill would come with me.

 

Bill: We automatically start thinking for the other one.

 

Are you musically on the same level?

 

Bill: I think that both of us have a good feeling when it comes to noticing a good song, independent from our personal musical taste. We listen to different music in private; Tom listens to a lot of Hip-Hop music. There are just a few bands which both of us like, for example the Stereophonics and Aerosmith.

 

A lot of famous Bands clam up very fast during interviews. How come that you’re so open?

 

Bill: Tokio Hotel has never been just a job for us. It’s our life. We’re still Bill and Tom Kaulitz when we get off the stage. We don’t just shut down our laptops and call it a day. Sure, when it comes to being open there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed, but I also want to tell people about bad things that happened, rather than to always say that it’s cool. I think it’s good to give the people a realistic insight into our whole career.

 

Tokio Hotel is one of the most successful German Bands. What is yet to come?

 

Tom: After our current Tour is over we want to tour through Asia – to Japan and a Latin American Tour. It’s hard to set goals, since our whole career started so suddenly. But we fought for those bits of freedom, and we’re doing our thing. We don’t need other peoples opinion.

Is fame addicting?

 

Tom: Yes. When you’re in the public eye, like us, then there’s no way back. In a way you’re kind of addicted to it. You don’t have the option to say “Hm, maybe I don’t want to be famous anymore”.

 

Do you think that you’ll ever be satisfied with the things you achieved, or are craving for even more?

 

Bill: Your mind doesn’t stop thinking, you start coming up with new ideas or Songs for a Video. We always try to be better than the times before.

 

Are you still excited before you perform?

 

Bill: I’m really, really nervous before concerts, this never changed. But as soon as I’m on the stage this nervousness is gone.

 

Is there a certain uncertainty behind the artificial character Bill Kaulitz?

 

Bill: I don’t think of myself as an artificial character. When you meet me privately I look the same as on the red carpet, unless I want to stay incognito. I don’t try to look even more extreme in public. That’s just me. I would always wear the hair and the make-up like this while doing something else.