Information
Date: 2001
Source: MTV Masters
Interviewed: All of Rammstein
Translator: English translation from German by Tanja
Interview
Male:"Everyone is talking about Rammstein: the lyrics on "Mutter", the dead baby on the cover of their new album; there isn't any German band that intends to provoke that much and consternates in such a way as the guys from Germany's capital are doing. This easily leads people to forget that Rammstein does not only want to break taboos. With their explosive combination of Metal and Techno-music, they are one of the most successful German Rock bands ever. MTV Masters takes a look at the people behind the "product": who are the 6 men from Berlin and Schwerin, why are they writing these dark lyrics? Is every single one of them going through a post-natal trauma? You'll get the answers right here at MTV Masters with Rammstein."
Female:"They are the most successful German speaking Rock band, they're famous for their musical combination between Metal, Pop and electronic music. At MTV Masters, guitarist Paul Landers and keyboarder Christian Flake Lorenz are talking about their creation, their albums, their life as provocateurs of pop music and the way they are considering themselves as band Rammstein.
Paul:"The most important thing about
a good Rock band is to be different than others, additionally it is good
if the band has a singer with charisma, his/her voice is less important,
an example would be Herbert Grönemeyer; then they should provoke a bit.
A "portion" of bluntness must be added for dealing with business matters
and for not being destroyed by that.
There are "hard" bands like Marilyn Manson, Limp Bizkit or Rammstein
who are existing for the purpose to annoy your parents - or Corgan (?)
- it's not important what you're listening to - the important thing
is that other people think that it is too extreme. There are also bands
that do a "nice" kind of music, but that's not what we want to do. We're
here for provocation. Rammstein are one of the few German bands that
are recognized as German, other examples are Kraftwerk or Einstürzende
Neubauten. We are German, maybe too much German for many people, but
at foreign countries, they like us very much. Sometimes we're even kind
of "ambassadors" of Germany concerning cultural matters. Many people
don't like this, but many do like it, as well. People in general don't
know much about Germany (they don't expect much of it). With Germany
they combine Mercedes, BMW - driving pleasure. That's it. They don't
expect something funny from Germany.
song "Rammstein"
Paul:Other countries have got the advantage that they don't have that dark history like we have. They can perceive us like we actually are - without that shadow. That's what we try to do with people in Germany alike. They're (foreigners) accepting us as a band that makes funny things on stages, does a certain kind of show on stage, has quite good songs and band members who are unique.
song "Rammstein" (movie scenes)
Paul:"Till was a basket weaver and he was always singing while weaving and Richard used to listen to him at the door and thought that it wouldn't sound badly. He thought: " I have to work with him!" He had the fabulous idea that Till should be a singer although he had only been the drummer in a dark punk band - and it worked!"
song "Rammstein"
Paul:"Every member of Rammstein had been in more or less good working bands and we started Rammstein additional to them - out of fun. Our intention was to create a heavy, dull, monotonous, mechanical and profound kind of music - that's what we wanted to do together - still independent from each other - that's the way we came together. We didn't want to do normal music, "nice" music."
song "Rammstein" (blonde woman)
Flake:"The 1st concert we gave was for my brother. We were playing with his band that was kind of a fun-band: they took songs like "California Dreamin'" and put crazy German lyrics on them, e.g. "I have to use the vacuum cleaner" or "I have to go shopping now". We went to the place where the concert should have been given, went on stage - serious, like we are looking normally - the audience was just standing there, they looked like they were afraid of something bad that is going to happen."
song "Rammstein"
Paul:"Then the light engineer of
this house (where the concert took place) came over, it was the Nazo
in Leipzig, and said: "I've never seen something like this before, it's
been the best concert I've ever seen."
"In all those past 10 years no one had ever told me something like that and I
realized: there's something going on here."
"Seemann"-video
Paul:"The 1st thing we did was that we went to the censor (music company?!) in Berlin - Schneider, Richard and me. We didn't know anything about the procedure. We only had our cassette. We sat down - all the 3 of us next to each other, gave this guy the cassette, he put it into the cassette player, we sat there and listened to it together. Burckhardt (the guy from censor) didn't like it very much. He told us in a nice way to go home.
"Seemann"-video
Paul:This was our 1st encounter with a music producer. Then we hired a manager who then sent the cassette to some music producers; but they told us that they wouldn't want our music, including Motor."
"Seemann"-video
Paul:"Then we changed managers and we got this manager that is still working for us. He knew this guy from Motor and one day he drove with him in a car and put a cassette in the cassette player, told him to listen to it, that it would be a new album, the reply was that it wouldn't be bad. Emu put then a Rammstein-cassette into it and the beats were going crazy - bum bum!"
"Engel"-video
Paul:"They Motor guy was so much impressed that he agreed on a date when Rammstein would play for him and we gave a concert for the music production firm, somewhere in Berlin. When we played the second song, one drum already got broken - the small one. We had added an electronic drum that creates all the profound sounds and that one was still on. All that Schneider could do left was hitting on the rim of the small drum. This created at least some kind of sound. Even without drum we got the music contract - because we're so great!"
"Engel"-video
Female:"The video to the song "Engel" is the 1st video of Rammstein that can be watched at on music channels. As soon as one month after having released the song "Engel", it achieved "gold"-status."
Paul:"The success of Rammstein is based on our life before it. We had played in villages for 10 years and had given concerts at every small club in the whole country."
"Engel"-video
Paul:"We've grown with Rammstein. The 1st step: our video was shown at MTV or VIVA, then there was some kind of break, but we didn't mind, then we got in the TOP 100 with a song - we always had time to think about it and to deal with new developments".
"Du hast"-song
Female:"1998 was the year when Rammstein
won their 1st award for their video to the song "Engel", they were headlining
a tour in the USA for the 1st time and were nominated for best Rock band
at the European Music Awards.
Everything about their music, their recent videos and everything about
the production of their new album "Mutter" - after the break at MTV
Masters with Rammstein!"
"Sonne"-video
Woman:"Mutter" has already received golden status in Austria and Switzerland. At the end of May "Links 2 3 4" went into the Top 100. Both videos are remarkable because of their concepts and the way they were technically translated into action.
Paul: (with a black face) "We had 40 ideas for the video to the song "Sonne" - I'm exaggerating, it only were 38! One better than the other. Really unbelievable how good the ideas were."
Paul: (normal) "My favorite was to take the original crew from the bomber that had thrown the bombs on Hiroshima. After the refrain "Hier kommt die Sonne" - a mushroom cloud - there you would have seen the atomic bomb that is blowing all the houses away. The following content would have been important to me: you would have seen 5 people or 6 - I don't know how many people can sit in such a bomber - and you would have seen them and you would wonder: how can they ever throw an atomic bomb on a city? - Knowing that all people will die. They must have had some reasons for doing that. - To show this conflict. (...would have been important to Paul)
- Richard's stepping into a room and Till (with black face) is saying: "Glück auf!" (coal-miners are saying that, it means something like: Good luck!)
Flake:"I'd have liked atomic stuff as well: we'd have been playing live (you would have seen them playing live in the vid) and then suddenly you'd have realized that there is something wrong because we all would have been tied to the ground and behind us would have been cows that would also have been tied to the ground and donkeys...and then you'd have realized that it is an atomic bomb testing area and at the last refrain of the song they'd have shot them at us and we wouldn't have known that we had been testing animals by ourselves."
- coal mine
Paul: (with a black face) "The bassist, Oliver, had cut a snow white video at home and he showed it to us while listening to "Sonne" - it didn't fit at all and that's what we liked about it."
- video shooting scenes
Paul: (with a black face and Till sitting next to him, smoking)"We had to make us smaller for the video because snow white is approximately 1,94 m tall and we had to be dwarfs..."
Till:"And Paul had to be made a little bit taller, ha ha!"
Paul:"That I would be 70 cm tall - dwarf size!"
- 2 Rammsteiners head banging in front of the TV
Jörn:
(director)"The old Ufa/Defa-productions used easily made tricks
for their fairy tale movies - I like using those easily made camera shots,
which means that we have to build everything, things and buildings in
a small and a big size - we have to work very concentrated on that, so
we won't do any mistakes, have to measure up everything, it has to be
very exactly made so that the proportions will be made correctly.
Paul:(with the cup in his hand) "On
the whole the snow white-tale is shot here and as you can see - everything's
smaller, look! (points at the mug) And the beam - you'll object to it,
if you want to.
Now we are in the room where everything's bigger - exactly the same
here - the table, which is bigger now, so you think that we would be
smaller. It's that simple.
- Snow white
Jörn: (to Flake) "You see that and you act as if you were frightened!"
- Snow white in bath tube
Olli:"It's such a nice story, with snow white and the dwarfs and what do we make out of that? Just making trouble all the time."
- Rammstein having a meal at the table
Till:"She's a nasty girl. It's not the kind of snow white of the fairy tale. It's turned around now."
Paul: (to the basket ball player in snow white's dress) "Snow white - what's your name?" - "Robert." "There you go! Now this question is answered."
- Rammstein and snow white
Flake:"We are dependent on snow white - emotionally; and she dies from a gold overdose; gold that we had searched and found for her. We regret that, but feel somehow relieved at the same time. Then she wakes up again and all the trouble starts again. Even worse - because she is really angry now."
- Christoph opens door of the dwarfs' house
Paul:"As we got to know that someone's butt should be beaten, they all decided oddly that I should be the one. I don't know the reason for this."
- Sonne-video
Man: (to Till) "If something gets broken, it won't matter. These are all things where you can stand on. Here and there."
Till:"Mmh."
Man: "When you come along here, you have to lever up the casket. It'll be okay, if it looks heavily."
Till:"Yes, the main important thing...like I said, I've already asked him, if those things here are arrested; the flagpole under there. That it'll be correct if that has got an incline now, that this won't roll down somehow. Won't it?"
Paul:"There's the scene when we are levering that casket up on a mountain - and what you don't see - because it has been cut out of the video - what you don't see at all - is, that in the casket which weighed 100 kg, lay the base ball player, the 2,40 m tall one. We had not to lay something in there, maybe some hair, but because of identical reasons, the base ball player who wasn't a lightweight..."
Flake:"It's been a basket ball player!"
Paul:"Him, too. There were 2 guys lying in it."
- Rammstein carrying the casket
Paul:"Lifting up the casket had already been a difficult task, we hardly could do it. All of us 6 together managed to do it, although it was very heavy and we could carry it to the mountain which was made of "Pappmaché" (= torn paper with paste and water stirred, gets hard when dried). We tried to lift up that far too heavy casket with that basket ball player in it, when the 1st man at the casket, I think it was Schneider, stepped through the mountain top and created a hole. We had a hard time lifting that casket up, nearly threw him onto the mountain and the director said..."
Flake:"No, at that moment, the light director walked through the take. We had finished it all, everything had been perfect and then he walked through the take..."
Paul:"He looked upon a foil and walked through the scene."
Flake:"The director told us to shoot it again."
- Rammstein puts the casket down
Paul:"Then we went back again; the 2nd time lifting the casket up was even more difficult for us, we almost couldn't do it. Schneider lifted it up and the basket ball player slid down in the casket, there was a shock and 2 of us went on their knees what almost made the glass casket break. Somehow we managed to lift it up again. But this is the reason why the scenes of carrying it, are very short. Actually, we didn't carry it, we dragged it."
- casket carrying scene
Paul:"We had two days of shooting and at the 1st day of shooting it got very late..."
Flake:"It would have been nonsense if we had gone back home, because the shooting was in Babelsberg and it had already been 11 p.m. and we had to be back at 6 a.m. the next morning; therefore, we decided to sleep in the dwarfs' house and the people of Defa, who were shooting the video, had been so careful that they had put blankets into the dwarfs' house. I drove to the gas station, bought 6 tooth brushes, tooth paste and deodorant and beer. At 6 a.m. the technicians arrived and stared at us puzzled! "What are you doing here?" (they asked) - "We're sleeping here!"
Paul:"This house belongs to us - we, the dwarfs!" (he said that to the technicians)
Flake:"They looked at us and said that they had already seen a lot of misery in their life and that they had been dealing with bands before, but they had never seen such kind of trash (he said this exactly this English word) - in their whole life!"
- video shooting scene
Flake:"If you're shooting a movie, it'll take some more time. And so this took more time than we had thought and therefore we had to drive directly after the shooting to the airport and painted as coal miner dwarfs we had to get into the plane. With dirt under our fingernails and our faces were dirty, too. Our manager packed our bags because we had no chance to get home after shooting. They stared at us and thought: do they really want to go with us?"
- video shooting
Till:"Who has got a hoe here? - Here please, Paul!"
Paul:"There we sat, costumed as dwarfs in the business class."
Flake:"There were such funny sheets for the head where you can lay your head on, they immediately went black. They looked at us in a really strange way."
- "Links 2 3 4" - video
Zoran: "Links 2 3 4 is a very brutal song, brutally militant - actually. My intention was to find a way to show nothing militant, but if it gets somehow militant, I wanted to show no violence that was caused by humans."
Paul:"The good thing about the ants-video is that we don't have to act in that video. We got a video and don't have to care about it. Zoran knows how to produce good videos and we simply trusted him. When the ants should do this (blink e.g.), then this will take 3 weeks to work at. We said: ok, do so. We thought it would be too dark. Actually, my opinion still is that it is a little bit too dark. For example, the beginning - on my TV at home you can't see anything! But it simply wasn't possible to do it in a different way."
Some people talking about the video:
Zoran: "They really panicked about the video being too dark so that they wanted to have the marching ants right at the beginning!"
Other guy: "Really?"
Zoran: "It took us only a few seconds. Oh, that's too long, let's cut it! Just cut this thing off! The funny thing is that the discussion about what rhythm actually is, took far more time!"
- "Links 2 3 4" - video
Zoran: "Next time, I hope, we'll have to produce something with lots of go go-girls with Mongol costumes on and they'll be fighting with swords. And everything would be under water, with lots of explosion, whatever. Or something completely different. Rammstein like nobody knows them. Somehow quite nice, for example."
DRSG '98 - video
Woman:"Rammstein's debut album "Herzeleid" was published in 1995 and had been 29 weeks at the TOP 100. 1997 this album gets into the TOP 100 again and stayed there for 1 year. The following album "Sehnsucht" got platinum- and golden status. On the 2nd of April the 3rd studio recorded album "Mutter" was published. Concerning the topic it's the consistent follower."
Richard:"The 1st album was the beginning: being together, the 1st encounters that we had, this 1st impulse of energy we had. It was very much kind of a rebellion, a great amount of aggression - this kind of energy we used to have."
"Du hast" - video
Richard:"The 2nd album was more pop music-style, more well-reasoned, more designed, more planned and the 3rd album is - maybe - a combination of those two styles."
- "Mutter" - cover
Flake:"Mutter is the perfect name for a CD. Actually, our intention was to name it "Herzeleid," because the whole album deals with matters of the heart. One song's called "Mein Herz brennt", everything deals with heart. Mutter is also born without a heart, there's a passage in the lyrics that goes like this. Therefore, we thought: gosh, let's name it "Herzeleid"! But the stupid thing is that an album called "Herzeleid" already exists and even more stupid is the fact that it is one of our albums."
"Links 2 3 4" - video
Olli:"A few things in the structure of this song, some electronic things are the reason that the song is like it is."
Christoph:"Now we're "in fashion", like we had been 3 years ago and at that time we thought: now we have to produce the next CD as fast as we can and go on tour after that, so that they won't forget us, like it is often happening in music business. We experienced that we don't have to do this. You can stay relaxed and trust on your album's quality and make sure that this is what you care about. And people won't forget about that!"
Flake:"We tried to think about the
future and create songs that we'll still like 2 years from now.
I played less at this album. If there's a refrain and you play chords
to that - that's what everybody will be able to do. And I didn't play.
That's something new because I always wanted to play. I thought it would
be a good thing if I played. But it's really good if you are able to
play and you won't do it. That's the reason for this CD being much better
than the other ones."
"LAB"
Flake:"It's not important to do something or to do many things. It's important to do nothing at all or to not do something particular that you would be doing anyway."
Paul:"The truth is that Flake's got an old synthesizer at which you can't add new sounds. And we are tired of the old sounds. We're always telling him: oh, Flake, we already know this kind of sounds, you already had that when you weren't even playing in this band."
Flake:"I do that for ideological reasons."
Paul:"I'd like to tell you the truth
about the real reasons that he won't be playing no more! The kind of
sounds he prefers is so much old-fashioned. And he doesn't want to search
for new kinds of sounds, partly because for his synthesizer they won't
be produced anymore...
And we won't be bothered with that."
Flake:"I'd like to go on stage and play not at all. That would be a good thing for the band, no other keyboarder would do that. Cause they all want to play."
- Flake's dance at "LAB"
Flake:"There could be a tour at which I'll go on stage without any keyboard. Like at the "Buena Vista Social Club" - band - did I pronounce it the right way? There's this black guy who takes care of everything, he wakes the old men up and tells them: now you have to play the refrain; yes, yes, no; that's the way we're playing that...Then he's leaving and coming back to find out if everybody's still alive. Sometimes one of them dies. Then he tells one band member: now it's your turn! And they're replying: yes, yes, we love to do it! They don't dislike playing. And this guy's only standing there and keeps watching them. That's what I'd like to do."
"Heirate Mich - LAB"
Woman:"Everything about the production of their new album "Mutter" and what the media reported on the publication - soon after the break at MTV Masters with Rammstein.
- "Sehnsucht - LAB"
Woman:"After "Herzeleid" and "Sehnsucht" nothing
had been heard from Rammstein for a long time.
"Das Model" and "Stripped", 2 singles, which aren't on any of their albums, are
the exceptions. After almost 3 ½ years, "Mutter" brings them back into the public.
The production of that album took them 1½ years."
Paul:"You do it like this: to every
album you're going on tour.
After touring Germany, like it was 6 years ago, with "Sehnsucht", I'm
exaggerating, approximately 3 years ago, we intended to do the next
album. But we had so much international success, that we had to make
people all over the world happy with our music and couldn't work at
the new CD."
- "Sehnsucht - LAB"
Paul:"Several disadvantages accompanied that: first of all, we had to play the songs longer than we had intended to do, because people there didn't know them and therefore we couldn't create new songs for our fans."
"Sehnsucht" - video
Flake:"Then we went to Heiligendamm, a small house at the Baltic Sea which had been empty and broken; and then we bought 6 Ikea-beds, build toilets in and lived there. That was the best time of the last year. We could play music early in the morning and look outside the window to the Baltic Sea while doing that. No band's got that. Not Phil Collins, not Mick Jagger, nobody could do recording in such a beautiful atmosphere as we could do at that moment."
- Baltic Sea
Paul:"There was a sign in front of the house: Heiligendamm - da wo das Land das Meer berührt (there where the land touches the sea)."
- picture of Heiligendamm
Flake:"We used to swim every morning in the Sea. Paul and me did that until the 18th of November. One day I came out of the Sea and dried my leg with a towel and it was like I would be drying a lamp-post. I didn't recognize anymore what I dried, what belonged to my body and what did not. Then I thought: what am I doing here?! I didn't feel it anymore and thought: I won't do this any longer!"
- scenes from Heiligendamm
Paul:"Till had bought himself a diving-suit and swam there - how could he ever do that: winter, November, Baltic Sea, swimming back and forth in the dark. We saw this "rubber-man" swimming, the jelly-fishes gathered at the shore, you couldn't go in there because of them, but he swam through them doing his morning exercises. It was disgusting!"
- a scene with Till
Paul:"Then we went to Berlin to do some more producing. There we lived in an old beer cellar in the district "Prenzlauer Berg", which was a bit moist and where no sunlight could come in. And every time we sat there we were thinking: we are 35 years-old and are sitting every day in a cellar without any sunlight - how dumb can you be?"
- Rammstein playing music
Paul:"In Southern France we found that studio that met our needs. It had only one fault: it was pretty cool and moist! But the production took more time than we had thought and so it got warmer and warmer and when spring time came - the studio is perfect in summer, cool and moist - but in winter it wasn't fun at all, but in summer time it's been great!"
- Christoph
Paul:"The Kelly Family is recording there, too. The owner of the house told us some interesting stories about them! But I mustn't tell them, but they've been very interesting! The things happening there. Don't tell anything, Flake!"
Flake:"AC/DC was also there once. The people who live there are French and they said: Angüs is crasi!"
- AC/DC
Paul:"Then we went back to Berlin and had kind of a feeling that something's still missing. We had to do some more producing. We really worked hard for that album."
Flake:"Then we went to Belgium. If I may give you an advice, don't ever go there! Ah, if I may give you an advice, don't ever go to Belgium! It's so unpleasant there. There are many ugly buildings, looking like "commercial cubes" behind barbed wire. That's Belgium."
- Richard carrying his guitar, impressions of a house.
Flake:"Actually, I love Stockholm. But I hadn't known that sun in November doesn't rise there before 10 a.m. and that sunset is at 2 p.m. And at the few hours when it isn't dark, it will be raining. And we didn't have an apartment, because the situation there is like this: there is one organization of the state at which you can rent apartments and there are no private firms. In our apartment a couple had recently died and the son couldn't live in it and couldn't touch anything there, but out of economical reasons he couldn't let it be unoccupied all the time. And we rented the apartment with the nightgown of the dead grandma in the bed. And we said: we'd like to move in, but it have to be 3 of us! - Otherwise we would die. Right there. We had to stick together. Then we went into the dark apartment, the son always standing next to us, taking care that we wouldn't touch anything. And then we tried to live there and that had been interesting."
- trees in front of the house, song "Mutter" played
Paul:"That had been like some kind of horror movie and then we had - on the 2nd day, we couldn't stand it anymore - then we took all this lumber, like these candlesticks here (he points to some candlestick in the hotel), like those lamps here..."
Flake:"They've been much more worse than those here."
Paul:"Then we took some bowls and put everything in them! Those lamps and pictures and - there were pink pings made of china - such terrible things. We took everything away and put it into the last room (of the apartment) and locked it. We could live there at last. But in spite of that we saw everywhere the dead old lady like this...Aaarrrgghhh!"
- ugly guy with glasses, Flake saying: "What's that called?"
- Till getting dressed, promotion pictures are taken
Woman:"With their provoking image, Rammstein have been criticized again and again. They've been criticized also because of their name which remembers to the crash down-catastrophe at the US-airbase in 1988. The front-page of "Mutter" has been criticized mostly by the people's voice number 1, the BILD (the newspaper in which the article about Anja was published)."
Flake:"Actually, I mustn't say this, but we were glad about it! We got a bottle of champagne and celebrated. Because BILD had written: DISGUSTING! - thanks to BILD; BILD helps us! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I loved it because I thought they wouldn't write about us. The headline was DISGUSTING and above it a picture of a tennis player, taken by paparazzi, could be seen. She looked like she'd have pimples on her butt. She wore a brassiere and a bikini - no - no bikini. And she got up and while getting up, the picture had been taken. And that really didn't look very beautiful. And then I thought: DISGUSTING - oh, the poor girl!"
Woman:"Rammstein was photographed for the booklet to the new CD by the artist-couple, Daniel and Geo Fuchs. They're taking photographs of 300 year-old humans for their project "conserving". The book "conserving" is published by Reuss, department Munich."
Paul:"Western culture doesn't like death - I hope I'm telling the truth now - death is no welcomed guest. He's ignored. At other countries, death isn't that much horrible. They are aware of him somehow. Yesterday, somebody told me: in Tibet, dead people, eh, they are laid on a stone and then they will be crushed. Just crushed to pulp - with stones. Everybody's standing around the dead and smash them to pulp."
- "Stripped" - video
Woman:"In 1998, Rammstein are criticized once more. The video to the song "Stripped" contains controversial film material made by Leni Riefenstahl. In the 30s and 40s she had been the main director for the 3rd Reich."
Paul:"Germans got a problem with their identity which is caused by the crimes that were committed by the Nazis - and by all that Hitler-crap! Therefore, the way people are dealing with life before and after that, isn't normal anymore."
- "Stripped" - video
Paul:"Anyway, we think, that our mission is to reactivate that what's left, what is still tangible; or life before and after that - to reactivate normality and to deal with it. Neither to praise it, nor to condemn it."
- "Stripped" - video
Woman:"With the song "Links 2 3 4", Rammstein for the 1st time made a clear political statement."
Flake: (at photo-taking for "Mutter") "Ordinary people told us: I like you and I don't think what everybody's saying about you. But I heard a rumor; I know somebody who thinks that there's something wrong with you. If only you made a clear statement! So we thought: all right, let's to do that!"
Flake:"Since our medium is music, respectively the only thing we're able to do, we created this song. To clear that out, once and for all. We made the song as bad as we possibly could to show that even left-wing people can be very bad ones."
- "Weißes Fleisch" - LAB
Woman:"Rammstein are touring the world again. Their gig in London at the 10th of June had to be canceled, because they weren't allowed to use any pyrotechnics at the Astoria. They will tour in the US from the 29th of June until the 24th of July."
Paul:"We had the idea to use water instead of fire in the future. But after the 1st shocks, we thought that it wouldn't be a really good idea, because it's better to not use water in Rock music. Water and Rock music don't go well with each other, because Rock music is made by using electricity. That's not very good when united."
Flake:"We won't burn stadiums or something like that. We're simply doing a show, like we always did, a Rammstein-show with some foolery in it."
Paul:"The best thing is that the journalists have calmed down a little bit; and we've calmed down as well."
Paul:(at photo-taking for "Mutter") "Right before the production of "Mutter" had been finished, we hadn't known anymore if we were good or bad; if we were starting or stopping. And now since it has been finished, "the sun has arisen somehow", in our private life; the climate between the members of the band has changed - knocking on wood: toc, toc, toc. We can...it's really..."
Flake:"Marvellous!"
- "Sonne" - video
THE END