I am definitely an European and I didn't become an American in the last 14 years I have been living over here. I am not totally up to date. My visits to Europe were pretty sporadic in the past few years. The only time when I did go there was when I was going to visit my family around Christmas time. But I am so angry about what has been going with this country in the last few years and about all that passivity and sort of not complaining that people display while is in Europe there is at least the old sense of liberal, radical, free thinking kind of stuff. The more chaotic but it's also more energetic way of thinking.

It's pretty scary now how the world is disbalanced since 1990 when The Soviet Union stopped to exist and how Europe is, actually, politically divided. But I really hope that Europe will wake up.

I think it will, I think it will... And if anything ... May be KMFDM is the right thing at the right time to come to Europe again and to help it happen.

I think it's time! (laugh)

I am positive.

The last time you did European tour was in 97 with Rammstein and before that was at the beginning of 90's with My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult?

Yeah, the last tour was in 1997 with Rammstein but the previous one was actually in 1995 with Atari Teenage Riot while the tour with TKK was before that. we had only 3 European tours in the last 10 or 11 years.

Tell me a little bit about the beginning of everything in general regarding EBM/Industrial music. In Germany DAF, Die Krupps, all Berliners.. In Belgium Front 242, Klinik, A Split Second .. In UK Nitzer Ebb, Click Click, Cabaret Voltaire, ... How was it being a part of the scene in those days?

Definitely it was really exciting. We started recording in 1984 when we did all the stuff that came out with "OPIUM" album ( originally only a tape release ). Then we did "WHAT DO YOU KNOW , DEUTSCHLAND?" and we made a record of it. That got licensed by the label from England and sublicensed from the Chicago's WAX TRAX. We made a couple of albums and we had really hard time to get anywhere. We toured, we opened for Einsturzende Neubauten, Borghesia, Cassandra Complex, Young Gods and many other bands that I cannot even remember who was there with us. But nothing really happened. It was really difficult and hard. I was working two jobs and making music. All of a sudden We got call from WAX TRAX and they said that we must come to the USA because MINISTRY wanted us to be the opening act for their American tour ( The Mind Tour 1990 ). I said - " OK .. Sure .. ". We were not excited at all. We were like - " Let's do it " because we thought it couldn't be any worse than we were doing home in Europe. We came to Chicago in December of 1989 and ... Wooooow man, there was like ... Suddenly we realized that we have sold out over 20 000 on WAX TRAX Records. I thought it couldn't be true. We did the tour for two months and a half and everything went just really really well and I was like - " Fuck it man, I'm gonna stay here!". People knew our songs and we found out that KMFDM was actually really popular but it's not because of KMFDM itself but because of whole that cult that WAX TRAX built and industrial movement here in America. Everything on that label was fresh, new, exciting and good. People would buy anything that would have been released by WAX TRAX. WAX TRAX was the central point of everything and the label for whole movement as PIAS ( Play it Again Sam ) was in Europe at the same time...