Translation:
R: Hello! Take a seat. Hi Tom, hello… Have you already processed all this madness around your fame? Are you used to it already?
T: Erm, well we’re certainly used to it, but we’re still always happy when we hear this. Now we’re having a bit of a quiet time at the moment so we can just take stock of everything, so we can realise that’s it’s all real, but you certainly get used to it.
R: How important are this quiet periods between all the hectic?
B: I think it’s really important, because we really need the time for going to the studio and erm… being creative again and work on songs again, but I couldn’t do without a TV show or something in the spare time [Laughs]
R: you also need that, don’t you?
B: Yes, I do actually [Laughs]
R: Also for the fan-contact, maybe. I don’t know if you could judge something like that, or maybe you have a clear meaning about it. About your colleagues Us5 for example; for one everything became a bit to much. How do you think you – as a young person – could protect yourselves against being… maybe… not really taken advantage of, but made to do things and that it becomes to much.
B: Very important are certainly the family, the friends; you definitely need support. Without it you won’t make it. And from the beginning we have hade a real great team that has always supported us, family, friends and so on…
T: I think that it’s really important to have these days off sometimes; when you’re free and you can take it easy. When you’re on the road with normal people. And we still have the advantage that we know each other for … six years now so we can also support each other a bit and I think that that’s an enormous advantage.
R: Your youngest daughter (to the other guy) is a Tokio Hotel fan.
Guy: Yes, she wanted to have an autograph no matter what. I telephoned her before the show and said “I’ve send it to you” and she was like “Thank you daddy, thank you!”
R: It has become a phenomenon: “Tokio Hotel” hasn’t it?
Artze (Not sure about the name): Yes, I think it’s cool. You have of course a lot of critics and a lot of fans. I’m a drummer myself and have been on stage for a long time with my drums. I think it’s really cool that you play yourselves and that it’s authentic; you are who you are and I think these guys are really terrific.
R: How important ere these good friends, and do have good friends that criticize? That say: “How you do that, maybe that isn’t totally okay” or “keep doing what you’re doing now”?
B: Definitely. The first things we play; like when recording or something, then there are always family and friends present and they tell us honest when something just sucks or when something doesn’t work out good. But that’s – as I said – the most important thing. You always have to have – even if it are not much, because the circle of friends is getting extremely much smaller of course –
R: Is that so?
B: Yes, but you notice that that are the real friends, they understand it when I don’t call back for two weeks, because we’ve lots of other things to think about. Sometimes there is so much to think about or to do that you can forget such things. For example I forgot the birthday of my parents and a friend… But [Audience laughs] But – but that show’s they’re friends; they weren’t insulted or something because they know how I am and that that hasn’t anything to do with them. I even almost forgot my own, but the fans reminded me.
R: Is there a big chance you lose friends because you’re just in another atmosphere and then just forget the most important things?
T: Yes, well, that is really hard, but as Bill said; that’s how you recognise the real good friends. Then you can just not see each other for half a year or a year and still everything is the same. That’s how it is in our circle of friends now. And of course it happens that when you used to be in contact with someone, but not being “real friends”, more like pals (don’t know a better word) then you lose that contact, that can happen.
R: Yes. And Ornella Muti is also our guest today. Cornella, you are a very fashionable woman. The two of them are very extravagant in their styles. Is it something you think is interesting or do you think “Oh well, that’s just how they are, those young people…”
O: No, I think it’s really good actually, when they express themselves in their own way. It’s good when you can express yourself like that, isn’t it? People shouldn’t be afraid of that.
R: No, certainly not afraid, it’s better to have your own style then looking boring, isn’t it?
And how is it when you’re on outside? Is it impossible for you – because people recognise you because of your looks – to just go to the supermarket?
B: Well, we don’t walk around like this anymore. We always used to, but now we disguise ourselves; with a hood on and … even put on a fake beard.
T: Just tracksuits and so on.
R: Really?
T: Yes. Well I don’t put on a beard, but just a tracksuit or very ordinary clothes; for us that’s dressing up.
A: Hey, that isn’t Artze, that’s Robbie Williams! [Laughs]
R: [Laughs] That would be a surprise… Well now… How about the girls?
T: Yes they erm…
[Audience screams]
T: There isn’t anything permanent yet.
B: No.
Girl out of the audience: WE LOVE YOU!!!
[Screaming]
R: [Laughs] Should I get you some?
Are you ever afraid of meeting a girl now, of which you think: “Maybe when I met her before Tokio Hotel then I could be sure she likes the person and not, like, the singer.”
B: Yes! Yes, that’s really true.
T: That doesn’t bother me much.
B: Well, of course it’s true. At least, in my case. The way I let people get closer to me is totally different then before, it’s certainly harder to make such a move and to trust people.
T: That doesn’t bother me that much.
R: That doesn’t bother you? [Laughs] Unfortunately…
T: [Laughs] I can say that I just trust people very much. Yes, that’s true…
R: I was reading the newspaper – and now the journalism of Germany is like “When those boys are really successful there should be something about them in it. It could be just your (He could say granddad, but I’m not sure. It would be a bit weird though) that’s maybe having a bad day or something… When you hear that; all the fuss that goes with it gets dragged along with all the bad stuff (?). Do you ever think; “Now I throw this all away, this is getting me too stupid”? How do you handle that?
B: Well I have to say that, in the beginning, all those headlines were totally funny; you get exited of course, that was new for us too. But as time went on they wrote so much more and told so much rubbish, that it’s now very normal. It’s just part of it like everything else. When we read the paper it’s normal that there’s something in it about us we haven’t said.
T: It’s actually every day like that. We buy very much magazines; when we’re in it. And everyday there is something in it that we haven’t told them and isn’t true.
B: We simple can’t give as much interviews as they write.
R: And do you laugh about it and say “Look at this, Í would have said this”
T: Yes
B: Yes, sometimes it’s really funny.
R: So, boys… a little changing of the subject [Get’s the T-shirts] Who does you laundry when your mummy doesn’t do it?
B: That would be the hotel.
[Screaming]
R: Don’t you do it yourselves? In the washing machine, 40 degrees, 60 degrees?
B: When it’s in a hurry, yes.
R: Can you also fold T-shirts?
T: I’m very good at that.
R: Try
T: The problem is; my T-shirts are a bit bigger (true…) Just look at this. Watch me going…
B: No, I do it very different.
R: You can try after him. Let’s how your brother does it. Super!
[Applause]
B: Well, my T-shirts are smaller, so…
T: Mine are double as big…
B: I do it in a different way … oh, I’m losing my transmitter… there. I always do it like this; I fold it this way. Like this…
T: Ah what’s that…
B: And like this…
T: That sucks
B: Bit that’s also fitting, look!
R: Yes, very good!
[Applause]
R: So ladies and gentle men, especially the ladies; these boys aren’t just good singers, successful and nice; they are also very useful in the household! At least, for folding T-shirts.
T: I can also cook noodles!
R: Noodles? With or without sauce?
T: Erm… ready-made sauce.
B: Or ketchup.
T: It tastes good, that ready-made sauce!