Yolandi Visser

People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It's…

— Yolandi Visser

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

— Yolandi Visser

It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have…

— Yolandi Visser

Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function…

— Yolandi Visser

Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

— Yolandi Visser

My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.

— Yolandi Visser

You can't get emotional about your work.

— Yolandi Visser

You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

— Yolandi Visser

How do you open up? I didn't know how to.

— Yolandi Visser

I wanted to be a cool mom. It was hectic. I felt very isolated for a long time, but in the end,…

— Yolandi Visser

Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own…

— Yolandi Visser

Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.

— Yolandi Visser

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

— Yolandi Visser

People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

— Yolandi Visser

I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried…

— Yolandi Visser

I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

— Yolandi Visser

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs,…

— Yolandi Visser

It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a…

— Yolandi Visser

I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop…

— Yolandi Visser

I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

— Yolandi Visser

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

— Yolandi Visser

Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

— Yolandi Visser

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

— Yolandi Visser

I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.

— Yolandi Visser

You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you…

— Yolandi Visser