Bill Kaulitz Quotes

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

English is not my first language.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

French was my first language.

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.