MTV: You're having a lot of success in Europe.

Q-Ball: The album came out in October there, so we had a little bit more time to tour.

Jimmy: But it's always different. Like with our "Bad Touch" video. Here in the States, they thought we were gay-bashing. So they took out this clip of us hitting two French guys with baguettes, but in Germany and Sweden, they didn't take that out. However, in Sweden, they didn't want us to show monkeys having sex, so they took that out of the video. The only people who always put out everything we do as it was meant to be are the Dutch.

MTV: How did you feel about the gay groups getting up in arms because of what they thought was happening in the video?

Q-Ball: We actually did a cover story for a gay magazine about it.

Jimmy: We have the same problem in England where they think we're homophobic. So this magazine called "Boys" came out and interviewed us. I started talking to the guy, and I realize that he was as demented as we are; it's just that he likes other men, and we don't. So now I'm writing for a magazine called "Homo Sex." The guy who offered me the job has this really legitimate kind of "Advocate"-type magazine, like a gay "Time" magazine, but he also has this "Homo Sex" mag. Every month we're going to have a visit from Jimmy that's going to talk about how desperate heterosexuals are and how horrible it is to be a heterosexual.

MTV: Is there anything that you won't put into a song?

Jimmy: We never really think about shocking anybody. It's the same as when we started. We just try to make ourselves laugh and have a good time when we're recording them. So whatever comes up, comes up.

MTV: Musically, are you always working on new stuff? Is it a constant process?

Jimmy: Whatever we talk about on the bus is usually what we put on our records.

Q-Ball: You know, some kind of idea strikes you while you're driving, or whatever. You write it down, you throw it in your laptop, and you save it for whenever you write the lyrics.

MTV: How do you guys feel about having really young fans screaming about you on "TRL?"

Q-Ball: I don't have any problems with it. I usually don't watch "TRL."

Jimmy: I do. And it's very strange that in Europe, they put us in these teen magazines. So you'll get like a magazine with a Christina Aguilera poster, and then it's our ugly faces on the other side. It's the strangest thing.

Q-Ball: It's weird at shows, too. The first seven rows are the people that were there at two o'clock, waiting in line. So it's all twelve-year-old girls, and then it's the frat boys and punks. You can definitely tell when we're playing in the city, 'cause there'll be no hooligans or misfits outside. They'll be at our show.

MTV: Any particularly strange fan experiences?

Jimmy: We have some stalkers from Europe. Right before we started this tour, as we were getting ready to fly out, someone from Switzerland somehow got my address, and the front gatehouse at my building called and said, "There's a girl here to see you." For some reason, we get a lot of that. It's very strange.

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