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" It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Your
Bit
Cool
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" Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Proud
Music
Love
" It's super dope when you connect with something personally. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Dope
Super
You
" I like Drake's stuff. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Stuff
Like
Drake
" When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
I Am
Man
Now
" We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Move
Music
Make
" 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. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Nothing
Know
Situation
" I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Loved
Rap
Around
" Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Down
Our
Hollywood
" All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Like
Who
Rappers
" 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
Man
Die
Know
" 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. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Side
Conservative
Culture
" Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
City
Little
Mountain
" We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Always
Will
Music
" 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. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Style
Think
People
" 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. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Think
Face
Daughter
" Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Safe
Member
Die
" We don't work with anyone. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Anyone
Work
" Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Art
Know
Even
" In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Speak
Africa
Sometimes
" There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Present
Nice
Experience
" The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Regret
Life
Practice
" I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Used
Ninja
Name
" I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Biggest
Pop
Planet
" 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. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Just
You
Rapper
" You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Together
People
Say
" Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Pop Music
Super
Pop
" The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Real
Illusion
Things
" 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. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Juice
Live
Power
" All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music. "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Weird
Like
Relationship
" Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like 'laid back in da cut.' "
Watkin Tudor Jones
Style
Been
Cut