INTERVIEW: GQ February 2010

"If Tokio Hotel on February 22 to 21 shows a strong first part of" Welcome To Humanoid City "- to start a tour, are concerts at the Moscow Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Paris, Rome - and (initially) only two German dates in Oberhausen Hamburg (26. and 28.02). an indication that the melancholy with her school friends from Magdeburg-metal glam rock have long been true Welstars. What say Tokio Hotel stylistically unconventional, creative, as well as combat-ready young artists in a world that only respect for them still needs to learn to tell us the 20-year-old twins Bill (Vocalist) and Tom Kaulitz (Guitarist), after the spectacular GQ photo shoot in Hamburg.

Bill and Tom Kaulitz, we have agreed to meet with you without your two bandmates, Gustav Schafer and Georg Listing. Are they insulted now?
Tom: On the contrary. To say thank you and put up your feet.
Bill: If it were up to Gustav and Georg, Tokio Hotel, they would play only bass and drums, and stay out everything else.

Taking a gap in the band?
Bill: Oh no. This has emerged even in the very early days: the bounds stuff with photos, interviews and red carpets, they prefer to leave both of us. Six or seven years but wanted only reporters from small town magazines talk to us, but even then have especially Tom and I presented the band.

Your colleagues two still living at home in Magdeburg. However, they have already moved five years ago in Hamburg.
Bill: Gustav and Georg have lived here during our first studio production, but are then quickly declined. Honestly speaking, so I can not quite understand. But perhaps Tom and I as well as special cases. My childhood was a stressful time for us. In a village near Magdeburg go to school, it felt like utter horror. We were glad to get away from there.

Many images from these years can be found on the Internet. Is not the painful childhood home? As has become of those?
Bill: Some have been published by our former classmates. Others we have given themselves to the press: baby and childhood photos of us, including impressions of early performances, as called Tokio Hotel Devilish yet.

You do not need a photo album more - you can simply google their own memories.
Bill: The other day we had planned to photograph finally back more. We travel to so many beautiful cities to experience so much that we should document ... Then we realized: we do not need! Because we accompany you anyway always a cameraman. The private photography, we have given up.

In many other German teen-pop bands of the hype was over after one season. Tokio Hotel, however, are obtained with MTV awards, sold-out tours in Europe and chart positions in the U.S., a worldwide success. To meet this requirement are: Should we choose to live his life strictly in the public?
Bill: Tom and I have actually made this decision for us. With all the negative sides - but we have learned to deal with it. Bad it is only when people get involved with that just do not want this: Parents, relatives and friends. We are doing everything we can to protect them from public curiosity. But if one bears the name Kaulitz, it is difficult today to lead a normal life.

Translated by: Google translator