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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
Yolandi Visser
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
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I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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