INTERVIEWS from "Falco Everything"

Uber Amerika

�America� on Falco 3 is a very cynical examination of tourism and the whole tourism polemics. (Die dort betrieben wird) �If Mr Smith is bald, we�ll sell him a comb � o.k. � the man was big, the girlie slick. Then he asks, what�s your name, I name 2000, the prudish girlie says.� (lyrics excerpt) Do I need to say more? This is no reproach to America, because they can�t be accused for being the way they are and neither can I.

Uber die message

The message has to be heaving a good time. Because there is no other way on that world.  I don�t believe that you or me will change anything in this world, I just believe that we have a function, an important function, to say: get out of the rat race, at least for 3, 4 minutes, while you�re listening to this song, get out of the poisoned atmosphere and I believe that the atmosphere in this world is poisoned

Uber sich

I believe that I learned one thing, I can be however I want to be, but I should be for real, I shouldn�t masquerade. When I�m confused, and I�m confused quite often during interviews, often a light disturbs me and I get in such a bad mood from one minute to another, that�s like the weather, you can kind of prepare for interviews, for when you want to present yourself to the public, but it happens often to a crazy guy like me that � whoosh -, all that is gone and I�m in such a bad so moody and I come across so bad like there�s Vienna and there�s that, it can happen, it will continue to happen to me frequently and time does its bit. I think I did my homework, so I can wipe away all the questions with a generous gesture and say, I�ve got nothing left to prove to myself, but nobody believes that, because everybody knows that I have to prove something an every corner in Vienna and be it just being in a good or bad mood or whatever. What I learnt is, you bleed to death relatively quick if you don�t take care.

I think that with an artist � and now that is really something important that I think I�ve learnt - It�s more about what he doesn�t show than what he shows and with a world � wide hit record like �Amadeus� the following happened to me in an instant: suddenly the public looks through a magnifying glass at this guy who walked the planet 7 million times with glasses and leather jacket and who always thought of himself as an outsider and suddenly there�s this hit and of course you�re a media victim if you don�t pay attention� Well. I ask you, how should I have known? Especially since my daughter was born at the same time, I certainly didn�t need more, so I was exposed to the public and didn�t avoid it, I would have needed defense officers and this and that or would have had to hide, I could have said, like Michael Jackson, now I�ll have my own castle, here are battlements, don�t come closer, I love my daughter and my snakes and monkeys or other bullshit. I didn�t want that, that wasn�t me. Especially in a small country like Austria where everybody knows each other this strange dynamic developed after the number 1 in America. I�ve got tell you, I wasn�t in such a good mood when I heard about the number 1 in America, because I knew what pressure would be on me and needed nearly five years to get rid of that, although it�s still coming back through the back door �What now, no number 1 in America?� That�s what I say, it isn�t about that anymore. Then I say I try to behave like a human being and not to stomp on anybody�s feet and if somebody stomps on my feet I�ll light up a cigarette and blow him away.

Uber die Kunstfigur

The whole schizophrenia started when somebody said that my name is Hans Holzel, but I call myself Falco. Do you think that a colleague from the Italian media would ever think writing:

� Alice, who indeed calls herself Alice, but whose actual name is Carla Pissi�? Nobody cares. Here an artificial figure was created that got me into problems especially in Austria and that harmed the balance of my personality. I got into a game that has its down sides, too. I don�t think that anybody will come along in 10 years time and say: �ah, that�s that guy�, they�ll always say: �is this him?� or �is that him�, �who�s he then?�, we like it� and �we don�t like it� and that�s what I�m aiming towards. My reputation in the industry goes from � let�s say � very, very difficult to �absolute definite asshole� and I want to defend that reputation teeth and claws, because I am a non-conformist in a conformist business. I can�t deny that I get a schizoid attack if an intelligent media colleague really asks: �Falco, do say, how much of you is Falco and how much of you is Hans Holzel?� And I think, lpease, for Christ�s sake, where am I? In actual fact that�s� Here somebody dares to get out of himdelf to portray a person, just how it is in performing arts, and that is so strange and even after 12 years in the business on the front pages of well-known Austrian newspapers I read �Falco, Hans Holzel�. That way the journalist proves several things, he proves that he still doesn�t know my name, he proves that Hansi is still Hansi. I tell you once and for all: There is no Hansi anymore. And he proves, that he somehow ignores that this was just about the introducktion of a brand name made of flesh and bone who doesn�t want to waste one more minute of his life explaining how much he is himself and hoq much he styled and modeled himself. He simply is.

Uber Kick beim Schreien. About the kick you get from writing.

  The kick you get from writing is always: how does it get out of your mouth? On the one hand we do have an enormous variety with the German language, one that English language doesn�t hold for me, on the other hand there�s the handicap of the �k�s and �st�s. And I�ve always had the talent � I think � to make German fluent with the help of English idioms that have become colloquialisms anyway, so that it works for pop music. Because pop music isn�t our culture, That�s �Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss� (folk tune) or � what else � Richsrd Wagner or Mozart or something. But I grew up with this music and I don�t see a reason for not adapting it for my needs. �Say, Falco, what do you want to tell us with this song?� Listen, I don�t explain anything anymore, I have to take stances an artists, but mainly regarding me and not ceaseless analysis of my work. I was therefore always against the purusts � to address them once again � because they said: �Man, he�s just nicking stuff from the encyclopedia of rock�n�roll�. Well, why not? I mean, shall we bore each other to death or what shall we do?