Till Lindemann Talks Skills In Pills

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    Maniacs recently caught up with Till Lindemann for a track by track blow of new release**Skills In Pills. **As expected it ain’t no flowers and butterflies with this guy. Its as the title of the album suggests, skills in pills.

    **Q: **Today I
    wanted to go through the actual record and just talk about each of the tracks
    so just basically we want to get you to describe for your fans the meaning
    behind some of the tracks and perhaps the inspiration and if there was any
    particular way you wrote any of them or any interesting bits of trivia you can
    tell us about these tracks and perhaps also what your thoughts are on some of
    them?

    **Till: **Okay we can start I can give a little sketch of each song. Skills and pills was based on my experience in
    eastern Germany we couldn’t get any drugs at all so we started grinding up pills,
    different types and mixes and yeh mix them up with vodka and so we had like a
    really fucked up cocktail and yeh but you had to be skilled in what you are
    doing otherwise you fell asleep immediately or you can even die or I dont know
    go really crazy. You couldn’t get any drugs there at all so it was like a little substitute.

    **Q: **Thats pretty heavy man!If you have
    a little bit to say about each track like that then I think people will be
    interested to hear that.

    Till:There are so many opinions about what people are
    thinking about these songs. They compare to the record company or to how
    our like world is going down. Everything can be supplied with pills, you dont even have to eat you can find a substitute with pills.There is a pill for everything which in the end is right, but the basic idea was to make a party song and in memories to the old days because in these days you can get anything you want. Everythings
    handled with a pill, it was like a little more progressive of everything.

    **Q: **O_kay cool so what about track 2, Lady Boy what
    can you tell us about that one?_

    **Till: **I went on vacation in Thailand and there
    was like this little street in Bangkok that really strikes me because I saw
    like these people running around and like it was kind of disgusting these
    Americans, big fat people came over and took the lady boys it was kind of
    really you know. To write about it was actually a different thing but who am I
    to judge people you know. I turned the whole thing into like a party song and
    something that I can actually admire.

    You have surf and turf, fish and meat if you
    cant decide go for both… The whole song became fun and a party song and
    like to raise your hand and say something about tit. Im not the guy who wants
    to judge people for what they are doing.

    **Q: **Okay and
    what about track 3 fat what can you tell us about that?

    Till:Its
    about skinny husbands feeding their wives.

    **Q: **You know i havent seen it but I’ve heard about it!

    Till: check
    out on the internet then there is nothing more to see, so many pictures like
    feeders its such an insane fetish. Its just. Watch it and you can think
    whatever you want. Everything follows its really, really strange.

    Q:_ What
    exactly inspired you to write about that particular subject?_

    Till: Its
    like this strangeness and fetish, how far can love go. This is all about love.
    These guys love their girls and they feed them, the treat them, the wash them,
    brushing them they do everything for the ladies and they just lying in the bed
    and get fatter and fatter and really, really weird.

    Q: Yep
    Okay. So what about track 4Fish On?

    Till: I
    like to fish and I always like catching fish there was so
    many. Its a story about a guy whos going out at nighttime and fishing for
    ladies. Its a funny song too, something around the bush you know.

    Q: Yeh! You just mentioned you enjoy fishing I mean do you have any secret fishing
    spots you can tell us about

    Till: If I
    tell you its not a secret anymore (laughs)

    Q: (laughs) Alright. Okay so what about Children of the Sun

    Till: Its
    like everybody knows these feelings when you sit down on the beach watching a
    sunset its over very fast, its over in a couple of minutes and you want to
    enjoy it but you cant stop it. It would be great if you can freeze this moment
    but its not possible. The sun goes down anyway and you have to live with it
    and because of this you cant enjoy the moment because you are so stressed out
    that you know the sun is going down you know? You cant enjoy it cos you know
    its going to happen and you cant freeze the moment and theres a little bit
    of this, beauty moments in life you cant hold them you cant freeze them so
    you have to live with it and sometimes you cannot enjoy…

    Q: I
    guess what youre saying are the only good things they only last so long then
    its gone.

    **Till: **Exactly!

    Q:Okay
    how about Home Sweet Home?

    Till: Home
    sweet Home is reason isits a song about cancer soit happens in almost every
    relationship. Everybody knows somebody
    or is related to or lost people. Everybody is in touch with cancer more or
    less in these days.

    Q: Okay.
    So thats a pretty serious subject, what inspired you to write about that?

    Till: My
    father died of cancer soit was a thing to tell about.

    Q:Okay,
    alright. So what about Cowboy?

    Till: Peter
    came with the instrumental he sent me it was just the drum kit (drum noise)
    and it reminds me to shot, somehow I came up, I dont know how I just go this
    idea of the horses and there was the rhythm of the song. The rhythm of the song
    was like riding a horse and it was in my head, it strikes me like this. Then
    out of the blue I came up with the cowboy situation. I dont remember anymore.
    Its just a thing, really if you talk about cowboys you can compare it to
    bikers, everybodys wants to be the tough guy or the hot shot. In the end we
    are all going to get old…

    Q::_ Did
    you ever get into cowboys movie at all_

    Till: no.
    When I grew up in East Germany, we got this kind of political thing. We were
    pro Indians. The Indians are the local people from America and they got like
    exploited they had to get in reservations and so the Cowboys are the bad
    people. We got these really silly East German movies, old shutter and stuff;
    they ere always pro Indians because these were the poor guys and the cowboys
    were the bad guys, thats how I grew up.

    Q: Thats really interesting, when I was growing up it was the opposite it was
    always about the cowboys.

    Till: Yeh
    yeh of course, the Indians are always the bad people, they come over to the
    camp and shoot everyone and the skull the people they are really brutal, they
    are really really bad and we’ve grown up the opposite the Indians
    were very good but in the end its the truth the cowboys came over and beat up
    the Indians you know?

    Q:_ The next track, I think its fairly self-explanatory but is there anything
    special you can tell us about golden shower?_

    Till: Can
    we skip that (laughs)?

    Q:_ (laughs) Yep, if you want! _

    Till: Just
    watch the internet and stuff, theres lot stuff on thatnext!

    Q: What
    about UConn?

    Till: I was
    with a close friend, I was on a canoeing trip in southern Canada and we passing
    the border to Alaska and we canoeing down the Uconn last summer, it was an
    amazing experience. In the middle of nowhere, if something was happen there is
    no help their passing you, youre going to die in seconds, it was kind of
    dangerous but kind of really, really exciting for me so I had to write about
    it. It was neat.

    Q: Thats awesome do you do much canoeing or outdoor activities frequently?

    Till: Once
    in a while, we have a lot of, where I grew up we have a lot of lakes and rivers
    and stuff so of course I go canoeing in the summer time but Im not a frequent
    canoe guy, not at all.

    Q: Okay
    cool. Last one is praise abort what can you tell us about that?

    Till: We
    have a very close friend around our family, hes got 7 kids and he makes good
    money but hes always broke because all the kids like take everything from him.
    If you write songs you always need a hook line or a chorus. You are digging for
    words and for phases and for hooks. Its very close to praise the lord. Praise
    the lord, praise the lord, praise the lord, praise abort, praise
    abort. We got stuck on that.

    Q: I
    see. I guess you have basically gone through all the tracks now is there
    anything else that you can tell us about
    how you went about writing the record or any inspiration behind it?

    **Till: **You
    forgot the bonus track. Now you did the whole record we can explain the bonus
    track!

    Q: Yeh
    definitely lets go ahead with the bonus track

    Till: This
    is the first love song with the piano and stuff like that and like a frozen
    voice which is comparison to ice cold woman, who wont let love in her heart.
    Its pretty simple. Shes an ice-cold bitch and she wont let anybody in and
    this guy is sitting in front and begging for loveblah blah blah. Its very
    like you know like and old fashioned love song.

    Q: Okay
    and was there any inspiration behind that?

    Till:No…(laughs)

    Q: Okay
    so I guess I have heard the album and I think its great. How did you go about
    writing this one differently to how you might have written a Rammstein track
    aside from the fact that its in English. You were obviously working with Peter
    as well, is there anything in particular you can tell us?

    **

    Till:** After doing 6 records and everything in
    German it was really refreshing to go with a different language. Totally new
    phrases, new hook lines, chorus lines its like a little boy in a candy shop,
    grabbing everything, take as much as he can. I had a couple of problems like
    with my grammar and expression and stuff like this but in the end it was really
    refreshing to do it in a different language.
    I wasn’t sure about it in the beginning so peter
    encouraged me a lot to continue because he is more experienced for almost 30
    years doing music in English and so I start slowly but within the time I am cool with everything my writing and
    expression. It was kind of hard. I grow up in the east part
    of Germany we had no English in school we had to learn Russian and to learn my
    English with touring with Rammstein in America and England and stuff like
    thatso it comes years later.

    Q: Okay
    so you mention when writing the album you had to focus on things like grammar.
    Did you find that writing the album actually did help improve your English?

    Till: Yeh
    of course. Sitting down, I have so many dictionaries and like English rhyme read. I spent a lot of time
    it was worth it. In the end I can hold up a record in English for a guy who
    comes from east party of Germany its really good.

    Q: I
    think that thats very impressive. Do you think you will write any more English
    material in the future?

    Till: I
    would love to of course. In September I go back to my Rammstein colleagues were starting pre-production for the next record and I dont know when to find the
    time in-between but maybe of course I do the Rammstein things in German but in
    between the working process I can go sneaking out, do some more English stuff
    and do something with Peter in between. I dont have time pressure, thats the
    good thing I can do whatever I want. I can like get a job maybe
    doing both.

    Q:_ Its
    always good you can do things at your own pace it means you can slow down and
    take a look and do it how you would like to._

    Till: Yeh
    exactly!

    Q: I
    think thats pretty much everything covered from me is there anything you would
    like to say to your Australian fans    ?

    Till: We
    would love to play this record live and maybe in January iSound
    wave or whatever but we still dont know. I really have to look for
    my plans with Rammstein because to sell out a live show is like making a record
    the second part of it all. I have no ideas how to do it!!

    Q:
    Awesome. Thank you very much for this I can tell you now that was really good man
    and I think that the fans are going to be really interested in some of those
    things you had to stay.

    Till: Thank
    you my friend!

    **Skills In Pills **is out now for your listening pleasure!


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Maniacs recently caught up with Till Lindemann for a track by track blow of new release**Skills In Pills. **As expected it ain’t no flowers and butterflies with this guy. Its as the title of the album suggests, skills in pills.

**Q: **Today I
wanted to go through the actual record and just talk about each of the tracks
so just basically we want to get you to describe for your fans the meaning
behind some of the tracks and perhaps the inspiration and if there was any
particular way you wrote any of them or any interesting bits of trivia you can
tell us about these tracks and perhaps also what your thoughts are on some of
them?

**Till: **Okay we can start I can give a little sketch of each song. Skills and pills was based on my experience in
eastern Germany we couldn’t get any drugs at all so we started grinding up pills,
different types and mixes and yeh mix them up with vodka and so we had like a
really fucked up cocktail and yeh but you had to be skilled in what you are
doing otherwise you fell asleep immediately or you can even die or I dont know
go really crazy. You couldn’t get any drugs there at all so it was like a little substitute.

**Q: **Thats pretty heavy man!If you have
a little bit to say about each track like that then I think people will be
interested to hear that.

Till:There are so many opinions about what people are
thinking about these songs. They compare to the record company or to how
our like world is going down. Everything can be supplied with pills, you dont even have to eat you can find a substitute with pills.There is a pill for everything which in the end is right, but the basic idea was to make a party song and in memories to the old days because in these days you can get anything you want. Everythings
handled with a pill, it was like a little more progressive of everything.

**Q: **O_kay cool so what about track 2, Lady Boy what
can you tell us about that one?_

**Till: **I went on vacation in Thailand and there
was like this little street in Bangkok that really strikes me because I saw
like these people running around and like it was kind of disgusting these
Americans, big fat people came over and took the lady boys it was kind of
really you know. To write about it was actually a different thing but who am I
to judge people you know. I turned the whole thing into like a party song and
something that I can actually admire.

You have surf and turf, fish and meat if you
cant decide go for both… The whole song became fun and a party song and
like to raise your hand and say something about tit. Im not the guy who wants
to judge people for what they are doing.

**Q: **Okay and
what about track 3 fat what can you tell us about that?

Till:Its
about skinny husbands feeding their wives.

**Q: **You know i havent seen it but I’ve heard about it!

Till: check
out on the internet then there is nothing more to see, so many pictures like
feeders its such an insane fetish. Its just. Watch it and you can think
whatever you want. Everything follows its really, really strange.

Q:_ What
exactly inspired you to write about that particular subject?_

Till: Its
like this strangeness and fetish, how far can love go. This is all about love.
These guys love their girls and they feed them, the treat them, the wash them,
brushing them they do everything for the ladies and they just lying in the bed
and get fatter and fatter and really, really weird.

Q: Yep
Okay. So what about track 4Fish On?

Till: I
like to fish and I always like catching fish there was so
many. Its a story about a guy whos going out at nighttime and fishing for
ladies. Its a funny song too, something around the bush you know.

Q: Yeh! You just mentioned you enjoy fishing I mean do you have any secret fishing
spots you can tell us about

Till: If I
tell you its not a secret anymore (laughs)

Q: (laughs) Alright. Okay so what about Children of the Sun

Till: Its
like everybody knows these feelings when you sit down on the beach watching a
sunset its over very fast, its over in a couple of minutes and you want to
enjoy it but you cant stop it. It would be great if you can freeze this moment
but its not possible. The sun goes down anyway and you have to live with it
and because of this you cant enjoy the moment because you are so stressed out
that you know the sun is going down you know? You cant enjoy it cos you know
its going to happen and you cant freeze the moment and theres a little bit
of this, beauty moments in life you cant hold them you cant freeze them so
you have to live with it and sometimes you cannot enjoy…

Q: I
guess what youre saying are the only good things they only last so long then
its gone.

**Till: **Exactly!

Q:Okay
how about Home Sweet Home?

Till: Home
sweet Home is reason isits a song about cancer soit happens in almost every
relationship. Everybody knows somebody
or is related to or lost people. Everybody is in touch with cancer more or
less in these days.

Q: Okay.
So thats a pretty serious subject, what inspired you to write about that?

Till: My
father died of cancer soit was a thing to tell about.

Q:Okay,
alright. So what about Cowboy?

Till: Peter
came with the instrumental he sent me it was just the drum kit (drum noise)
and it reminds me to shot, somehow I came up, I dont know how I just go this
idea of the horses and there was the rhythm of the song. The rhythm of the song
was like riding a horse and it was in my head, it strikes me like this. Then
out of the blue I came up with the cowboy situation. I dont remember anymore.
Its just a thing, really if you talk about cowboys you can compare it to
bikers, everybodys wants to be the tough guy or the hot shot. In the end we
are all going to get old…

Q::_ Did
you ever get into cowboys movie at all_

Till: no.
When I grew up in East Germany, we got this kind of political thing. We were
pro Indians. The Indians are the local people from America and they got like
exploited they had to get in reservations and so the Cowboys are the bad
people. We got these really silly East German movies, old shutter and stuff;
they ere always pro Indians because these were the poor guys and the cowboys
were the bad guys, thats how I grew up.

Q: Thats really interesting, when I was growing up it was the opposite it was
always about the cowboys.

Till: Yeh
yeh of course, the Indians are always the bad people, they come over to the
camp and shoot everyone and the skull the people they are really brutal, they
are really really bad and we’ve grown up the opposite the Indians
were very good but in the end its the truth the cowboys came over and beat up
the Indians you know?

Q:_ The next track, I think its fairly self-explanatory but is there anything
special you can tell us about golden shower?_

Till: Can
we skip that (laughs)?

Q:_ (laughs) Yep, if you want! _

Till: Just
watch the internet and stuff, theres lot stuff on thatnext!

Q: What
about UConn?

Till: I was
with a close friend, I was on a canoeing trip in southern Canada and we passing
the border to Alaska and we canoeing down the Uconn last summer, it was an
amazing experience. In the middle of nowhere, if something was happen there is
no help their passing you, youre going to die in seconds, it was kind of
dangerous but kind of really, really exciting for me so I had to write about
it. It was neat.

Q: Thats awesome do you do much canoeing or outdoor activities frequently?

Till: Once
in a while, we have a lot of, where I grew up we have a lot of lakes and rivers
and stuff so of course I go canoeing in the summer time but Im not a frequent
canoe guy, not at all.

Q: Okay
cool. Last one is praise abort what can you tell us about that?

Till: We
have a very close friend around our family, hes got 7 kids and he makes good
money but hes always broke because all the kids like take everything from him.
If you write songs you always need a hook line or a chorus. You are digging for
words and for phases and for hooks. Its very close to praise the lord. Praise
the lord, praise the lord, praise the lord, praise abort, praise
abort. We got stuck on that.

Q: I
see. I guess you have basically gone through all the tracks now is there
anything else that you can tell us about
how you went about writing the record or any inspiration behind it?

**Till: **You
forgot the bonus track. Now you did the whole record we can explain the bonus
track!

Q: Yeh
definitely lets go ahead with the bonus track

Till: This
is the first love song with the piano and stuff like that and like a frozen
voice which is comparison to ice cold woman, who wont let love in her heart.
Its pretty simple. Shes an ice-cold bitch and she wont let anybody in and
this guy is sitting in front and begging for loveblah blah blah. Its very
like you know like and old fashioned love song.

Q: Okay
and was there any inspiration behind that?

Till:No…(laughs)

Q: Okay
so I guess I have heard the album and I think its great. How did you go about
writing this one differently to how you might have written a Rammstein track
aside from the fact that its in English. You were obviously working with Peter
as well, is there anything in particular you can tell us?

**

Till:** After doing 6 records and everything in
German it was really refreshing to go with a different language. Totally new
phrases, new hook lines, chorus lines its like a little boy in a candy shop,
grabbing everything, take as much as he can. I had a couple of problems like
with my grammar and expression and stuff like this but in the end it was really
refreshing to do it in a different language.
I wasn’t sure about it in the beginning so peter
encouraged me a lot to continue because he is more experienced for almost 30
years doing music in English and so I start slowly but within the time I am cool with everything my writing and
expression. It was kind of hard. I grow up in the east part
of Germany we had no English in school we had to learn Russian and to learn my
English with touring with Rammstein in America and England and stuff like
thatso it comes years later.

Q: Okay
so you mention when writing the album you had to focus on things like grammar.
Did you find that writing the album actually did help improve your English?

Till: Yeh
of course. Sitting down, I have so many dictionaries and like English rhyme read. I spent a lot of time
it was worth it. In the end I can hold up a record in English for a guy who
comes from east party of Germany its really good.

Q: I
think that thats very impressive. Do you think you will write any more English
material in the future?

Till: I
would love to of course. In September I go back to my Rammstein colleagues were starting pre-production for the next record and I dont know when to find the
time in-between but maybe of course I do the Rammstein things in German but in
between the working process I can go sneaking out, do some more English stuff
and do something with Peter in between. I dont have time pressure, thats the
good thing I can do whatever I want. I can like get a job maybe
doing both.

Q:_ Its
always good you can do things at your own pace it means you can slow down and
take a look and do it how you would like to._

Till: Yeh
exactly!

Q: I
think thats pretty much everything covered from me is there anything you would
like to say to your Australian fans?

Till: We
would love to play this record live and maybe in January iSound
wave or whatever but we still dont know. I really have to look for
my plans with Rammstein because to sell out a live show is like making a record
the second part of it all. I have no ideas how to do it!!

Q:
Awesome. Thank you very much for this I can tell you now that was really good man
and I think that the fans are going to be really interested in some of those
things you had to stay.

Till: Thank
you my friend!

**Skills In Pills **is out now for your listening pleasure!


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