Reforma newspaper 12.3.2010 - Mexico

During the last three years the members of Tokio Hotel have assured that they've been obligated to become experts in the game of "hide and seek" because they hate paparazzi, anyone that attempts to get into their private lives and anyone that persecutes them day and night anywhere they visit.

The brothers Bill and Tom Kaulitz, Georg Listing and Gustav Schäfer declared, exclusively, that the price for fame they have aquired in their lustrous past they have paid with the constat harrasment by the media.

"Now that Tom and I live in Los Angeles we've noticed the nightmare that are paparazzi. There are paparazzi everywhere, and we don't like them and prefer to hide from them. I hate paparazzi, we hate them, I think that photographers that are dedicated to that are the worst people in the world and should be bad persons to be in that business."

"They make money off the lives of others without any effort, destroy lives, ruin careers, invade a human being's privacy. I hate them", Bill said during a conference that took place in a central hotel in the city.

The German quartet, formed less than a decade ago and is popular for hits like "Automatisch", "Final Day", and "Phantomrider", commented that on Wednesday, when they arrived to Mexico City, they slipped away even from their staff to be able to tour around comfortably.

"We had loads of fun, at night, we ate delicious food and drank all the tequila that we could. We tried pulque*, I didn't like it as much as the tequila. We were not even hungover, we are very good drinkers, it was a delight. Mexico means a lot of excitement for us, very warm, the sun, this weather is so lovely",added Bill's twin brother, Tom.

In the meeting with the band, prior to their performance last night at the Palacio de los Deportes, they were impressed at learning that their Mexican fans were competing with Spanish fans to break the record of waiting the longest outside a venue where they would play, a mark that the country's admirers have set...with three weeks!

"It's incredible that fans make us feel, hearing that they've waited for three weeks for us is crazy, but it feels so great."

"The fans have given us many things, they've been fun to even weird, they've given us rugs to decorative stars; well, they gave Georg many boxers because he likes them so much. Depends", said Tom.

The pop-rock stars announced that this coming Tuesday December 14 their compilation album Best Of will go on sale, in which they include English and German songs that have made them famous all over the world, like "Monsoon", "Scream", and "Humanoid".

> Bill Kaulitz has modeled a collection for Dsquared2.

He said it"
We canceled the show in Monterrey (which would have been Tuesday) for the lack of safety happening over there. It was a decision of our team. We want to go back there, there will be time". Tom Kaulitz, guitarist and founder of Tokio Hotel