Since their recent deliverance in the U.S. the boys of Tokio Hotel have had a blast to the moon like success.  After winning a number of awards within the past year, including a VMA, the metallic German emo-pop band has been enjoying a global coup.  The four part sonic youth is contrived of the brothers Kaulitz- 18 years old identical twins Bill and Tom who are stylishly worlds apart; George Listing, the 21 years old bassist and drummer Gustav Schäfer, 19 years old.  At such a young age the band has already been largely successful in Germany and other parts of Europe with two albums in their native tongue that have scored four #1 singles, two #1 albums, and 10 times platinum status.  Their English album Scream, released last year, has sold 100,000 copies and landed them on the award circuit States side.  With numbers like these it's safe to say that Tokio Hotel is the biggest thing coming out of Germany in the past 20 years.

You've won a VMA, what was it like to get that affirmation that you've made it in the U.S.?

Bill: It's unbelievable. We were so, so excited to be nominated and we never thought we would win one. I mean, we just started in the States; we are still so excited to find out that we have fans there and that people know us. But our fans surprised us once again by voting for us. (Laughing) It's just great and totally crazy.

Have you been to Tokyo yet?

Tom: No, unfortunately not. We would love to go to Tokyo and play there- it's definitely one of our dreams.

Bill, your hair is a mane to be envied.  How?

Bill (laughs): Well, don't brush it too often and just use a lot of hairspray.

You had a lot of success internationally when you were still recording in your native language; why the move to English?

Bill: Our lyrics are most important for us and we really wanted everybody to understand them without sitting down with a dictionary and looking up the words. So it was our decision to do a one-to-one translation of our most favourite songs from the first and second albums. But it's still absolutely overwhelming for us to see that no matter where we go and play our fans all over the world can sing along to our German songs as well.

Do you plan to do another all German album?

Bill: Of course. I mean we are a German band and German is my native language and that's the language I can express myself best. So I will write in German first and then the songs will be translated and recorded in English.

What are each of your favourite songs on the album and why?

Bill: It's very different and it changes all the time concerning the mood we are in. We all have like favourite album tracks and then favourite songs to play live. At the moment my favourite album track is "By your side" and live it's "Black".

George: Live, I really love "Raise your Hands," my favourite track at the moment is "1000 Oceans".

Gustav: Talking the album "Final Day", live "Break Away".

Tom: Live it's "Raise your Hands", my favourite album track "Don't Jump".

Bill: But as I said, it changes all the time. And we can't wait to go on tour with our new album.

Each of you listen to very different types of music, how do you come up with your sound?

Tom: The four of us listen to very different types of music in our private life. (Laughing) The only music we agree on is our own music. We always wanted to create our own sound, that's our musical common sense. It was a natural development. We went into our rehearsal room and took off from there. (Laughing) Of course it was pretty bad in the beginning [and] you don't want to listen to that, but it took off from there.

What do you think about your fans in the U.S.?

Bill: They are great! As I said, we are still so flattered that we even have fans there. And it's getting bigger from show to show. They are full of energy, very engaged, and loud - we love that. 

How are they different from your fans in other parts of the world?

Bill: You can't differ concerning on the country. Just take a look at the last 12 month: We won the first MTV European Music Award in December 2007, a Radio Energy Award in February 2008, and an Echo in the same month. A VMA in L.A. in September, four MTV Latin Awards in October and the second European Music Award in November- and all of that just because of them! I say we have the best fans in the world!

In your trips to the U.S., what have you not been able to do yet that you would all like to do as a band?

Tom (laughing): Going to the casino, or to a bar and party. It's really hard - in Germany we're finally allowed to do everything as soon as we turned 18, but in the U.S. Bill, Gustav and I are underage - so we are back to the No Goes.

You've been called androgynous so many times that one would think your face might become synonymous with the word someday soon.  What do you think about being pretty boys?  Do you think it might isolate male fans in any way?

Bill (laughing): That's actually nothing I think about. For me and all of us it was always important to be ourselves. We never wanted somebody to tell us how to act and how to dress. That's the way I am, that's how I express myself. What you see is what you get. And all I care about is that our fans connect with our music and with us - that they can feel us.

There's this definite protest of some music lovers that the beats are too watered down and too commercial, like we don't know how to have diversity as we used to in the past even as early as the 90's.  What do you think about that?

Bill: I think there is so much great and different music all over the world. Maybe not everybody becomes successful with it, but there is so much good and different music in the world - you just have to start searching and you'll find lots.

Like the punk rockers of the late 70's, early 80's, or the original grunge of my generation-the 90's, Emo is searching for something different; what do you believe will differentiate the genre you seem to somewhat gravitate towards from the rest to set its own class and not be so compared to other movements in the past?

Tom: I don't know. We are not people who like to give everything a stamp or classify. Music is all about emotions and imagination. And all we ever wanted is to express ourselves and to be ourselves and that the people who listen to it can connect to the lyrics, to the music. That they get touched and involved, that's what counts for us the most.

What does this year hold for you?

Bill: Well, we just hope we can continue with our music. We are still working on our new album. It's not finished yet but it we hope to release it in Spring. We can't wait to get the first reactions of our fans and to go on tour with it.

What is the one goal you have not achieved yet?

Bill (Laughing): We are not about goals. We never said we need to reach that and then this and afterwards this one. There is no master plan behind us. We are more about dreams.

Tom (Laughing): Yeah, and one big dream is a world tour - that would be awesome.

Bill: Yes, more than awesome.

Will any of you be moving into other parts of entertainment like acting?

Tom: Not really. We love what we do and we hope to be musicians as long as we can.

Bill: But you never know - I like the idea of taking part in a movie ... (Laughing) A Tokio Hotel movie would be wicked!