I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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.
Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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.
We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.
It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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.
Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
I like Drake's stuff.
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.
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.
When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
