Quotes from Watkin Tudor Jones

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.

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.

The interweb's got a weird vibe.

With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

We don't care if you understand us.

I like Drake's stuff.

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.