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" God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Body
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White
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" We don't work with anyone. "
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" We don't care if you understand us. "
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" All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music. "
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" I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death. "
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" We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite. "
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" When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act. "
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" It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing. "
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" You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that. "
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" It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like. "
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" I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me. "
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" 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. "
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" People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level. "
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" The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion. "
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" In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea. "
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