Bill Kaulitz Quotes

Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.

My accent's become a weird hybrid.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

We shall now cease using the eloquent language (Arabic) …. We would fain speak in the Persian tongue that perchance the people of Persia, one and all, may become aware of the utterances of the merciful Lord, and come forth to discover the Truth.

You cannot have one or two million immigrants a year and still have English as the only official language of the country.