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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.