We love the American crowds.

I like things to be unpredictable.

Nobody speaks German outside of Germany.

Rammstein's music demands German lyrics.

We used to be either punks or goths - we hate Nazis!

Love is like a flower, even the most beautiful kind dies.

I would love to make a really cool Spanish song, definitely.

In German, there are only so many things you can write about.

For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.

Transsexuals are amazing. You have all the great stuff in one place.

We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.

It's just really efficient to work with a person who can do everything in the studio.

I'm not a big hip-hop fan, but I respect all kinds of music and some of them are really cool.

When I listen to the first songs I wrote in Rammstein, I have to smile because it was so silly at time.

You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn Russian.

I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'

Oh, my kids know me, and they know the Rammstein's history. It's hard to shock them. I got punished, in the sense that they're really big Coldplay fans.

In the very beginning, we went on tours with Rammstein in really small clubs. We didn't even have a record out. We played in restaurants and pubs in the south of Germany.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.

You can't easily break out of this cycle of love. It's always here and there up and down.. pain and joy, this wonderful feeling of being in love, which will come to an end later, is so dominating through your entire life. And you cannot escape it.

I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs... it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.

When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.

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