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" A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters. "

Watkin Tudor Jones

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" When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja. "

" Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer. "

" Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture. "

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Culture

" All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music. "

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Relationship

" In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa. "

" Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music. "

" I just wanna hear my own voice. "

" We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite. "

" The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion. "

" Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest. "

" It's good to be intuitive. "

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Intuitive

" I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music. "

" God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body. "

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" Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say. "

" I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man. "

" I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death. "

" It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing. "

" We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh. "

" Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing. "

" Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about. "

" I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet. "

" Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain. "

" Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is. "

" I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me. "

" I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me. "

" America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation. "

" All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it. "

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Rappers

" My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson. "

" The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone. "