Yolandi Visser Quotes

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.
I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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.
I wanted to be a cool mom. It was hectic. I felt very isolated for a long time, but in the end, it was cool because it helped me and Ninja stick together. If we hadn't, we would have maybe drifted.
I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.
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.
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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.
I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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.
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.
Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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