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читать английские титрыBill: I can't smoke weed anymore these days. I can't take it anymore.
Always puked in the shower, then the next one did... Sometimes even on people.
When I was 19, I loved it. I was high every day.
There was a fight.
All of the guys needed fluffers to make it work at all. But then it was just a real porn shoot.
Felix: Can he still assert himself as a stepfather? *Laugh* You know what I mean?
One, two, three.
*Moo* That was the secret sign. It starts and we can take off the masks.
Bill: Yes! I already took off mine.
Felix: You are tested. So are we.Take a look! I can even proof that it is 1.50m.
Bill: Did you measure that exactly with the red seats?
Felix: Look!
Bill: Even more than that.
Felix: There is still space. Yes, okay.
So Bill, nice to have you here again.
Bill: I'm glad. I am always happy to chat with you.
Felix: Well, you dropped quite a bomb yesterday at Germany's Next Top Model.
We'll get to that in a moment. I just have to play the intro before the editors complain.
You know I would never forget that.
Bill: You keep getting younger and younger by the way.
*Intro: Wartungsfläche Fuhrpark*.
Felix: So finally back in the underground car park. This is nice.
Bill: Yes! It's my second time.
Felix: Before we talk about the musical bomb you dropped, I would like to ask you something about Germany's Next Top Model.
Because I know you like to talk to Heidi about business ideas. She is super creative.
I've been watching this season and I was really wondering if you've had some influence on the show?
Bill: Sure, we talk about it like: "How do you like her? Isn't she great?"
I also have been a guest juror in this season. Of course we will speak then too.
And I say stuff like: "Well I think that girl is awesome!" And Heidi says: "Yes, but so and so."
And so we that a little about what happens behind the cameras. So we're giving tips.
Felix: Was it a given that "White Lies" would be the title track?
Bill: Honestly, that happened very spontaneously. We all have been in Berlin and Heidi started shooting.
And there wasn't a song for the opener yet. Heidi shot it without the song.
She danced, but there wasn't any music yet.
And when we worked on the song Heidi came into the studio and took notice. And we played it and worked on it.
And then she said "I think the song is awesome! Let's use it for the opener. It would fit really well". And we said: "Yeah cool, let's do that."
Felix: The reason I was asking about your influence... Diversity is my keyword.
So in this season we have a curvy model, a refugee model, a transgender model...
and not like maybe ten years ago, when you would have said: They're just there to make people gawk.
They are all great. They have a charisma.
Bill: Well, that it is also very important to Heidi. Germany's Next Topmpdel has been around for 16 years
and some things had to change and move, of course, just as time changes and time moves.
And that's why it is also important to Heidi that you always have interesting, great people,
who are also modern and do represent the modern times.
So of course I think that's great. I'm a huge Alex fan.
Felix: In your book you're writing that Heidi asked you once: "Why did people hate you so much back then?"
That is hardly to imagine now. But it was mainly because of your look, wasn't it?
Bill: Absolutely. Yes, of course it has been a completely different time.
Well, I have the feeling that we were always almost too visual and too American for Germany, actually.
Because in Germany people like the 'boy next door', who can sing great as well.
But if you look too blatant then it quickly turns into rejection and hatred.
And I think that today, 15 years later, it would not be okay to throw things at 15-year-olds.
I think that has changed.
Felix: Yes, I hope so. Bill: I believe that . I think that won't be ok today. I think you'll get a huge shitstorm right away.
Felix: In the book you also write about such posters. It says "Kill Bill" on it. Grown men ran around with it.
Bill: There were actually T-Shirts. I thought about doing the merchandise myself back then...
because it sold so well that I thought I had to turn it into a business.
Felix: That would have been a really good move.
In the book you also write the answer to Heidi's question: "I think that's partly due to the suppressed sexuality".
I mean, it could be. Or at least let's say, a man looks at you and he might even think you look good.
Bill: Yes, and then you catch yourself thinking "Shit, why do I think he looks good? That can't be!"
It's like the story when I came to the new school. I was very, very young. I had long, dark hair and went to school with my brother in the country.
I think we were in third or fourth grade. And then all the boys up to the age of 16 fell in love with me, my brother's sister
and gave him love letters for the sister. And I knew that they would find out that I'm a boy.
Of course, I knew they were going to kill me. For them it was of course the most embarrassing thing that they fell in love with a boy.
Felix: So, at least in the beginning, you didn't drink anything for the whole school day because you thought: "They'll kill me in the toilet."
Bill: Exactly. School was always such a struggle for survival.
I knew I had to go to the bathroom at home. Everything was precisely timed. On the bus you knew exactly where to sit.
I knew exactly when I could go to the bathroom, which classes had physical education at which time. when is the danger to meet someone.
If I had to go to the toilet then only with Tom. But preferably I would not drink at all so there was no need to go to the toilet.
Felix: It's sad that it didn't get any better with the success.
At that time you were also afraid of attackers. Do you still have that fear today?
Bill: Yes, I still have that sometimes. You carry stuff like that inside yourself.
I think everyone carries a package with them from life. I think we all have wounds on our souls.
And of course I have. I mean, I was physically approached when I was a little boy.
And of course I'm afraid of people once in a while. when I hear loud voices somewhere at night.
Or yesterday I arrived at the hotel at 2 A.M. At this time I'm not necessarily going out alone with my dog.
I've always got someone with me, because I don't dare to do things like that.
Felix: In Germany or also in LA?
Bill: It's better in LA, but it also depends on the location.
I live very secluded in the nature, in the mountains. It's super easy to go out with a dog in the evening.
But now in downtown, for example, I might not dare to do that either.
Felix: What is the earliest attack you can remember? How old have you been?
Bill: Well, there was this situation e.g. in that public swimming pool. Back then I was ...
10 or 11 years old - something like that maybe.
Some boys approached me, pushed me into the corner and then grabbed between the legs and so on.
Or then they held my head under the shower and stuff like that.
And then of course with the band when I was 15. We were also bullied.
It was normal for me to be guarded by security the whole day. We never had them because of the fans, but because of the people who wanted to attack us.
Felix: Really crude. I asked because I think this picture is so beautiful.
You in a bathing suit. What a great mother you had. She allowed you to walk around in that swimsuit.
Bill: Yeah, that's really awesome. I don't have a memory of it but I found the picture when I was researching for my book.
And then I went through my mom's photo albums and saw this picture and I said to her:
"How awesome you are that you just said 'yes' to this!" And then she told me:
"Yes, that belonged to your friend Katharina and we went to a lake
and you said you'd rather put on the nice pink swimsuit. So I said, okay, then you put it on."
And I was like: "You dared to do that? Great!" I think it's really great.
Felix: And now we come to the musical bomb. You performed your new single.
The song is 50 years old. It's a cover of The Who –
"Behind Blue Eyes". Some may know this as the cover by Limp Bizkit,
but Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow or Within Temptation did it too.
Bill: This is news for me. I didn't know that at all. OK.
Felix: Often covered, but nobody has done it like you. Together with VIZE.
Bill: Exactly. So we thought it worked so good with "White Lies" to mix our worlds
Guitars meet the typical slap house from the VIZE guys.
And then we thought: "Okay, it fits the song really well." And we were really up for it. We wanted to try it on a classic tune.
We wrote new verses for it and wanted to breathe new life into it and make a whole new version of it.
Felix: How many songs did you do with Vitali from VIZE?
Bill: I think we did 5 songs in the first session.
Felix: What?
Bill: Yes. We met in the studio for three days. We drank and played video games most of the time.
Felix: *Laughs* Like in the old days!
Bill: Yes, like back then when we used to meet. Like I wrote in my book. Whenever I come to Vitali's studio,
it feels like back then at the bus stop in the village. We drink and sit until late at night and then we make music too.
But that is also part of it. Well, I can't do it like other people who are so stiff. They meet in the studio at 9:30 A.M.
They do a brief small talk and then they immediately start making music. I'm not having any fun at all.
First I have to laugh and arrive and connect with people. And then I can make music. It has to flow and come naturally.
And it was totally like that with them. We just got on really well with everyone in the studio.
They also have nice colleagues like Marc. And Leonie is also in this studio.
We all get along really well and so the songs came about automatically.
Felix: But if you say it's like back in the days... you used to smoke 'herbal cigarettes' back then. Do they still do it?
Bill: No, I can't smoke weed anymore. I can't take it anymore. In LA everyone smokes weed and in the past I always wished for it to be legal.
It's legal in LA. You have to know that. There are shops almost everywhere like pharmacy here and you just go in there.
Or you can even simply order it from your car, as a Drive Through, and then get a huge pack of all sorts of weed.
And I can't do that. I smoke it and I panic instantly. Well, I couldn't sit here with you now.
I would be like: "Oh God. I have to get out of here quickly!" I'll get like... phobias.
Felix: Aha. Interesting. What does that say about your inner self?
Bill: Yes, you'd have to ask a psychologist. *Laughs*
I think there is a time for everything. For example, when I was 19 I loved it.
I was high every day. I think I went smoked weed daily for a year and played Mario Kart when I had some free time.
That was the coolest thing for me. And all of a sudden it switched. Suddenly I couldn't take it anymore.
But I have a lot of friends who feel the same way. There are a lot of people who say, "Ah, when I was 20 I loved it and now at 30 I can't do it anymore."
I wish. Maybe we should smoke together and try it again sometime.
Felix: In LA!
Bill: Maybe I just have the wrong kind of weed. Maybe I have to try something different.
Felix: Vitali was also a Tokio Hotel fan, right?
Bill: He didn't tell me that at all. He revealed that later.
Felix: He started to playing guitar because of you... with 19.
Bill: I think that's really cute. I did not know that at first...
And then he would let it slip into our conversations that he knows all our songs. And first I thought he was kidding.
Then at some point he said: "My brother and me bought a guitar back then and we loved "Monsun" so much." And he knew all of our live DVDs and always watched them.
Felix: But this is quite unsual... He did not belong to your main target group. A 19 year old kid, right?
Bill: Yes. I don't know. He says he always stood by it. He always liked us back then. I think that's great, of course.
But of course that was special. Yes, I think a lot of people heard us like him and kept it a secret.
Felix: The lyrics of "Behind Blue Eyes" fit you so perfectly.
It's about how people want to put a label on you that you don't really want wear. That's your story! Is that why you chose it?
Bill: Yes, I always was very emotional about the song. I also grew up with this Limp Bizkit song.
That was our time and I always thought it was great. It touched me somehow.
And then we had the guitar riff and we wrote a new verse to it
and adapted it so it would tell my or our life story. With the career and the expectations that people have. And now it became even more personal.
Felix: You had to submit it. Pete Townshend, the head of The Who, personally approved it. Have you been a little scared?
Bill: Yes, we also thought maybe we wouldn't get that approval. So we did it and and thought
"Hey, who knows, maybe we can't publish it at all." That's why we haven't told anyone about it.
So we sent it off and it really took a while. You won't be informed immediately the next day and people say, "Yeah, ok, you can do it."
So when they finally said: "Yes, cool, do that!", we felt so happy that we were allowed to touch the song.
I mean this can not be taken for granted. Especially when you change the lyrics.
Felix: So that's a good sign, I would say. *Both laugh*
What really triggers me about this: The Who is the band that embodies the Rock'n'Roll excess like no other.
It was the first band to destroy their instruments on stage and their hotel rooms.
And here I see clear parallels to Tokio Hotel.
Bill: Yes, yes, we were crazy too. I use to say: "No, actually it wasn't that rock'n'roll." But we did some nasty stuff back then. Not so today.
Felix: I heard you were banned in some hotels.
Bill: That's right.
Felix: Can you tell us some stories? What was the worst thing you did?
Bill: Oh, we always have ... oh God, I'm not allowed to tell you that. We loved to throw things out the window.
*Laughs* Sometimes even on people.
Felix: Ok, but no TV, right?
Bill: Nothing hurtful, just some water stuff or so. What every you think is funny when you are 16.
Felix: Have you ever dismantled a room like that?
Bill: We never destroyed a room so it had to be renovated. No. Maybe we did break a bed at some point.
*Felix puts a teacup on the floor* Can I break something?
Felix: Sure. If not now, when? For The Who.
Bill: Am I allowed to throw it on the floor. Like a "Polter" wedding?
Do you throw something too?
Felix: If you want, I'll throw something too. But look, I have that.
Bill: Oh, you've got something big!
Felix: I'll handle the cup.
Bill: Where do we throw it?
Felix: That way.
Bill: OK.
Felix: One ,two, three. *Smashing tea cups*
Not bad, how does that feel? Bill: Well, I like that. So we did that at Tom and Heidi's wedding too.
It's such a German tradition. Felix: Poltern.
Bill: Yes exactly!
Felix: Ok, wait a minute, I'll be right back.
Bill: What nice surprises you always have!
Felix: *Laughs* Wait a minute. I am not ready yet.
Bill: What are we going to do now? That looks really dangerous.
Felix: We don't have a whole hotel room for you.
Bill: Oh how cute!
I've never done that before. What did you bring with you? * Laughs * Awesome!
And now we put on a helmet?!
Felix: I would recommend that. They didn't have protective glasses for me. *Felix puts on sunglasses*
Bill: How do you do that with the helmet? Ah ok, just like that. Let's see if it fits with my new hair.
Felix: Suits you!
Bill: Really? Show me! It's a bit YMCA style. *YMCA Music*
I'm afraid that I will hit it so hard that I will hurt all the people back there. *Laughs*
I just have to knock on it from above, right?
Felix: One, two, three...
Bill: What do you say?
Felix: Really great! The Who would have been happy. Bill: Wouldn't they?
Felix: Come on, let's sit down again.
Felix: Back then they would have auctioned the fragments, right? Like they did with your old bus stop back in the village.
Bill: We can ask the people. Maybe someone wants to have the television. Then you will have to send it off.
Felix: Just write it down here in the comment section if you want to have the TV. We will keep it for one week.
Do you think Tom felt that now? You transfer everything to each other, right?
Bill: Yeah, but I mean, he would probably have felt it if you had put the hammer down on my head.
Felix: Well, I won't do that.
Bill: But no, not like that. He's probably sleeping calmly right now. It's the middle of the night in LA.
Felix: Your record company banned you from partying because you drank hard alcohol at after show parties at age 16.
Bill: We have always been hung over. We once had a photo shoot where we all had to pile up for the BRAVO magazine.
And we were still so drunk on the shoot because we have had a hard party the night before. That one club really wanted us there.
They gave us vodka and then we celebrated the whole night. Tom and Georg had totally fun with some fan girls.
So, we're off to the shoot the next day. And we still smelled really badly. We really slept for like an hour and the smell of vodka was everywhere.
And we had to shoot for a teen magazine... ... * tv suddenly cracks *
Now it's exploding...
*Laughs* We had to do a shoot for a teeny magazine poster.
We all had to stack on top of each other. It was for a life-size poster.
We tumbled and almost fell over the whole time. We really couldn't stand up straight.
We then took turns in the photographer's bathroom to throw up.
So we puked in the shower. And then the next one would take his turn.
The problem was that nobody was allowed to know that, because we still were underaged.
People always feared that someone would come and say: "Your contracts are canceled." *broken TV make sounds*
Felix: You did beat the crap out of it, I would say.
Bill: I mean, The Who would be jealous.
Felix: *Loud laughter* Do we want to push it out of the picture?
Bill: Yeah, you better put it behind that door.
Felix: The most blatant story in the book was when you guys went to that porn shoot. 0:19:48.840,1193:02:47.295 They would have said immediately: "Okay, they have to go back to school! This doesn't work!"
I thought about it. Haven't you been ashamed being 16? Or did it feeling exciting?
Bill: That was very dangerous. Honestly, we didn't really know beforehand what we were getting ourselves into and what to expect.
And then all of a sudden we were there. So I thought okay, there might be gogo dancers or stuff like that.
But then it was just a real porn shoot and they were really naked. And we saw how a porn was shot.
It's not all that sexy. All the guys needed fluffers to make it work at all.
And of course everyone was very nervous. I still remember our security and our manager being there too. They all looked at each other like:
"Fuck! If anyone takes a picture here ..." And then of course a guy really filmed us watching.
So they took his camera. And of course that was a huge drama because he didn't want to give it away.
And then there was a fight. And the next day we had the headline: "TOKIO HOTEL at porn party."
But nobody knew that we really have been at an illegal live porn shoot. I didn't reveal that until now.
*Laughing*
Felix: Nobody knew how routined you have been because of Loitsche and the village next to it. You describe it like a swinger club.
Everyone was allowed to go into the tent with everyone.
Bill: Yes, I mean in the village...
I don't know about others... but we didn't have much else to do. We fumbled and drank and took drugs.
Felix: While we're talking about your book...
Did someone complain because you wrote very open hearted about them?
You're doing dirty laundry with the old managers, producers and the record company. Everyone gets something. Was there any trouble?
Bill: No, a few reacted very funny. So there was a couple of messages from old record label dudes
who wrote like: "Hey Bill, compliments on the book. I laughed a lot ..." Felix: Cool.
"... and I recognize myself in the book. And it's nice that you are still thinking of me."
So some reacted very cool. I was almost surprised and thought it's great that they are so relaxed.
I wouldn't have believed them to do that. Good response.
Sone of the old bloodsuckers did not react at all. That's a good thing. I'm glad about it.
And then there are a few people who, of course, weren't that happy.
Some wrote angry messages like: "How dare you?"
But nothing happened that I didn't expect.
Felix: No lawsuit or something? Bill: No, luckily not.
Felix: The book was supposed to be written together with Tom. I just found out about that. But he was too lazy.
Bill: He was to lazy. We started this together and then we had a long thought about
what kind of book this should be. Then it got really crazy. It went back and forth and he wrote a little and I wrote a little. It got very, very complicated.
Because you never knew which twin was telling the story right now. And it was hard to build an emotional bond.
And then we found it very confusing and Tom really had to torment himself. He doesn't like writing.
And it was somehow easy for me and I enjoyed it. For Tom it was a bit like a math exam.
"Ah, now I have to write that somehow." And that was just not his cup of tea.
And then we thought: Okay, maybe this should be more like a novel?
At some point we didn't have time anymore because we always had Tokio Hotel stuff going on. And then I thought: "Okay, I'll do this alone now."
Felix: I have an idea for you. Let Tom read the audio book!
Bill: Yes, that's a good idea. But honestly, he wouldn't be in the mood for it either.
He already said: "I'd like to record it for you. But I don't want to read it.
Felix: He doesn't like the sound of his voice. You say he sings really well, but doesn't do it at all.
Bill: I believe everyone can sing a little bit. But Tom...
The funny thing is when he has song ideas, he sings them into the phone.
And when he plays it for me, he actually sounds just like me.
So sometimes he plays it for me and I think it's good.
Sure, he doesn't hit the notes that well and so.
And it may not be that professional. But the color of his voice when he sings makes it clear:
we are identical twins. It is absolutely similar.
Felix: I saw that one picture in a story and thought, "Okay, Tom might be more of a dancer after all."
Bill: Yes, look, that's how it works at House Kaulitz. Striptease at... What is it? A parasol!
Felix: The question I asked myself... I mean it was public... but an Instastory is gone at some point...
Can he still assert himself as a stepfather? You know what I mean?
Bill: I think he can. The funny thing is that the kids don't really care what we're posting.
Well, we're already the uncool parents.
I mean okay. I'm the cool uncle, most likely.
But otherwise it's the same as with everyone else's household.
What mom and stepdad do isn't that cool and you don't necessarily watch it all day.
So it's not like they follow what we post on Instagram all day.
They don't care too much. They have their own friends and their own stuff to watch.
Some YouTube stuff that I don't even know. I think it's like with all other families at home.
Felix: You're a cool uncle. Honestly!
Bill: Yeah i'm a cool uncle. Yes, I agree. Absolutely.
But what I do may not be cool for 13- or 14-year-olds anymore.
Felix: Do you enjoy that dad role with the children as well?
Because in the book you also say: I don't know if I'll ever have a family. Is this a replacement for you?
Bill: I really enjoy it because Tom and I have a very small family.
And of course we were always together. This has been our home.
And to have such a big family with children who bring friends...
and then to make a big barbecue... I totally enjoy it. I think it's super nice.
And I think it also gives me an incredible amount of energy. I totally get into it.
But the good thing about being an uncle or a step-uncle is the fun.
Because I do all the good things. I don't have to assert myself.
I just arrive, do funny stuff and then I go home again.
Felix: The chocolate uncle: "I've got something for you. Party!"
Bill: "I've brought you something cool. Let's have fun!" Of course that's easier than acting responsible.
Felix: Our last interview ended on a melancholic note. Because you said:
"I dont believe in my great love anymore."
I just want to ask again. Some time has passed. Do you think there's something on the horizon?
Bill: I dont know. *Laughs*
I don't fall in love that easily. I fall in love really hard.
When I fall in love, I really go for it. But I'm always wrong.
I'm not that lucky.
I just do not know. I think it's similar to the book. I don't know if that's necessarily on my cards.
Well, I love my life and what I do. And I totally get into it.
And I also wrote that I think that I'm the one of us who loves the career the most.
Somebody has to do this because otherwise she would be offended. I really think so.
Felix: The career. I see!
Are you attracted to broken people?
Bill: Absolutly!
Felix: Because you are or want to be kind of healer?
Bill: I dont know. But I really like sad eyes.
And mostly I attract the problem people.
So all my friends say: "No no no! Not again!" It is always like that.
I do not know why that is. I mean, we're all broken in one way or another.
Felix: Definitely. Bill: So I don't know.
Felix: Let's do a quick fan service. Because there are always questions in the comment sections of our interviews. after our interviews...
Is an audio book coming? Is a movie coming? And when is the album coming? So what can we look forward to?
Bill: You can look forward to a lot. I just finished my new fashion collection. There will be a lot of new MDLA stuff.
Then of course there will be an album this year.
We will release some more new singles this year. Also featurings with other people.
Felix: Before or after the album?
Bill: Before the album.
Felix: Okay, it'll take a little longer...
Bill: Exactly. The album will need some more time. I would say it comes out in winter. But we will do a lot of songs before that.
As I said, we also have other cool people with whom we will do something.
What else? Yes, film and such. Let's see...
Felix: That wouldn't be something. Who should play your role?
Bill: Of course, I would like to play myself if it's in the present. And otherwise...
I think casting the young Bill would be exciting. No idea!
Felix: In any case, I wish you a lot of success.
Bill: Thank you.
Felix: As always, I ask: "Would you give this video a like?"
Bill: Absolutely. I mean, we put on helmets and broke things. 100 percent!
Felix: Then do that too. The best thing to do is to subscribe. And thank you! I wish you a lot of success!