Quotes from Rob Pilatus

A lot of groups like Duran Duran, they want to be rock stars, but they sell the most records with their looks. And I have to say, with us, our look is our money.

You get something, but for that you make a pact with the devil.

Now you don't know if somebody likes you or Milli Vanilli, the fame, the money. This makes it difficult. This makes you a little paranoid and afraid about people.

I warn the industry, they shouldn't underestimate the fact that Rob and Fab still have a lot of fans. And they should try to forgive us. Because we weren't bad for the music industry. We changed the music industry.

It seems to me America is the country of second chances.

I looked at all the superstars. What is their different thing? Their hair. Beatles, Elvis, James Dean, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe. I wanted to be a star. I said, 'I have to fix my hair.'

Fabrice and I are big talents. We can sing as good as any other pop star In the Top Ten.

Once we realized what happened to Boney M., we wanted to come to the States. In Europe, artists just don't have the same protection they do over here.

People were laughing at us and we knew it was our fault. The scandal caused us a lot of pain but I guess it made us face reality.

We said to Frank Farian, 'You don't let us sing on the album. Don't do this anymore.' We don't want to live like this.

The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you're not so good - not so important.

We were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty.

We didn't want to receive the Grammy. We knew that we were going to get caught.

We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall.

That's why I left Germany and went to L.A., that's why I hooked up with the lawyers, that's why I hooked up with a big management company - just to protect us, to keep the kind of image I could live with.

We went with the wrong attitude to America, too successful with a too big attitude. We were not really knowing how grateful we should be just to have the chance to even lip-sync a record and be exposed to five billion people worldwide.

I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I just ran off the stage.

You hear blacks are good in sports and good singers. But you don't hear about black lawyers or black politicians. I learned things later, but went through some hurt before I learned - before I had a better picture of black people and a better understanding of myself.

We are true singers but that maniac Frank Farian would never allow us to express ourselves.

Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music and not just plastic bands anymore. So I think we changed the music business to a better, more honest way.

We didn't want to do any more interviews. The more we talked, the worse things got.

Boney M. were not allowed to do interviews, they were not allowed to choose their costumes. They looked like slaves, and this was the producer's take.

What we thought brings us a disadvantage, brings us an advantage against the American black rappers, because they look all the same, with their training outfits and sneakers, you know? But we didn't know this, it wasn't calculated.

We sold our souls to the devil. We lied to our families and our friends. We let down our fans.