Yes, it's a wild cool song written by Desmond Child for us. That's why we wanted to have it on our record. But we simply felt like DNA that was chosen for the single was better for it… well, I wouldn't say that it's a better song, but I would say it's more 'fitting' song for Kissin' Dynamite and the best 'fitting' single for this album. And I think we weren't wrong with this decision to choose DNA. Because there's also something else: DNA has these electronic parts which we really wanted to establish in the sound of Kissin' Dynamite.

Jim Muller (guitarist): Noooo… he paid us! Hahaha… No, just kidding…

Hannes: Elephant Music actually was a part of the Kissin' Dynamite family since the very beginning. First they signed us and then we signed a label deal with EMI. Back in the days of our debut album we were 15, and we were pretty good with the instruments, but although we already had knowledge of writing songs, of course, we were not true professionals. So, they helped us with the songwriting and stuff. And back then we said: oh that's such a cool team that we don't wanna lose them and that we wanna do more records together and they also wanted to do more records with us, so we didn't lose them over the years until Megalomania. They still co-write songs with us as well but it's turning less and less because we turned more adult and more skilled in songwriting. I would say on Megalomania we basically did it on our own but, of course, we wanted to put the credits into the booklet since there's some little co-work.

Hannes: No-no.

Jim: As to Elephant it's just a cool friendship which developed over the years.

Hannes: You know, with exactly this line-up we started in 2007 as a band. Since that day we are one, we are brothers and that's cool. We are not a band that was created by a production company and we are a real band since the very beginning that's really cool about Kissin' Dynamite, 'cos it's the honest thing.

Hannes: We have never seen us as glam rockers. With 'Money Sex & Power' we saw ourselves as a German answer to all those great rock bands of the 80's with some modern hint. We have never wanted to be a hard rock band with that old sound just like all that 80's stuff. We live in 2015 and we'd like to sound like we are in 2015 but still having the roots. Well, 'Money Sex & Power' was an album that probably is the most that was based on glam rock, but there wasn't a specific concept like "we wanna do glam rock or we wanna do power metal". We just did what we did, what we wanted to do. And it was a development from the very beginning. 'Steel of Swabia' was something of that, something of this and nothing really with a plan… 'Addicted to Metal' was a little bit like that, but even more developed, and so does 'Money Sex & Power'. And now with 'Megalomania' we can say we've really found more than ever our way, more than ever our style that we were heading to, and of course, it will be tiny difference with the next album as well.

Jim: I think 'Megalomania' is the most German album. It sounds close to Scorpions.

Jim: True! That's exactly what I wanna tell you. Absolutely! Imagine, here's +30C right now in Italy and we could have done our make-up during one hour and after we would have finished the second side of our faces, the fist side would be fucked up already. And imagine in the morning after the show… As I remember, on the next morning it looked even messier than before. It looked like… Ozzy Osbourne meets Alice Cooper. It was really funny, though.

Hannes: Probably he will….  Probably he is too old… Probably he listens to Vicky Leandros…. Well, maybe we would never find out because he doesn't know about Kissin' Dynamite, I guess. Maybe we would see him later… on the first row going crazy. And actually it could be pretty cool if we had state chiefs all over the Europe as our fans. Berlusconi coming to our Milan show, Hollande comes to our Paris show, Putin comes to our Moscow show… one day… or even better: Putin invites us to play in Kremlin!

Jim: Not even one second of the whole tour and stuff. Sometimes studio works can get a little bit boring because when I try to record my guitars and I need to record that riff for fifth hundred time and they always say "that wasn't that good" and I say "it was good!!!" (scaring voice) and they 'no, it wasn't" – in this way it's getting boring but the whole thing is so cool, it's so amazing when we're just enjoying doing our best all the time. And it never gets boring!

Hannes: Bassists are always the biggest victims. I mean, they play BASS! Everybody who plays bass are like this… Don't you think?

Jim: Yes, definitely! You know, he was just a nice guy until we asked him to join the band and we said ok… Now you're playing bass. That's why he is the victim. And it's always funny. But actually, to be honest, we always have a great time on tour, we always have much fun. We are the best friends who are travelling around the world. It's just a great feeling to always be on tour with these guys. We can tell you a lot of things… there're a lot of dirty stuff that nobody gets to know actually (smiling). Ok… a pretty funny thing is that we always lose Ande…

Hannes: We do, we do… one time we played a show in Belgium. Everybody was heading to the nightliner after the show and the bus was rolling and we partying in the bus and nobody realized that Ande wasn't drinking with us… Nobody even realized that he's out when we decided to go to bed late at night and next morning we woke up and everyone was like "Ande is still sleeping" and when we checked his bed he wasn't there… We called his phone and it was actually the Belgium police who answered. Well, the phone was found, they brought it to us. And we played like 4-5 shows without Ande then, we had to do it with a sub. Ande came to Finland five days later when we had a show in Helsinki. And that was quite funny.

Jim: And actually he didn't even know where he was at that time… He just woke up one day and said "oh my god, which day is it and where's my band?!" And he was just thinking how to join us again!
 

Jim: Absolutely! We always try to have a lot of time touring, so always when the bus stops we have about one hour to get in and stuff (smile). We try to see as much as possible in the city, so we always walk around with all the crew checking out the places and stuff. And when we visit such countries as Italy we always take swimming clothes with us because we love the water, we love the sea and we always try to get to there when we are near… I definitely will go back to Stockholm one day, it's a very beautiful city!

Hannes: Everyone was walking around a lot in Tokyo which was really cool because I've never seen such a mega city before that time in Japan… and Barcelona… that was a very very cool time there, because we had 2 days-off actually in Barcelona. It was great because one day-off  is always like everyone is just exhausted after the last night party and you are just lying in your bed in the bus, and you don't think to get out until ten o'clock. But if you have second day-off it's really cool because you get curious what is outside of this bus door and you go outside to have some kind of traveling experience. And in Barcelona we were climbing up to the mountain which is right in the middle of the city. That was so beautiful, and the night fell in two hours when we were up there and suddenly the city lights were going on, in one minute, and that really looked something like I think Brazil could look like or some Latin city… it was insane time in Barcelona and we had a very cool show there. But obviously we don't see too much on tour.

Hannes: One time I was falling off the stage but it's not too unexpected, I mean, every kind of rock musician sometimes fall off the stage. One time our roadies did really bad jokes on us during the last show of the tour. So, they put a lot of flour on stage and we didn't recognize, and all over the stage there were papers of naked women everywhere. I mean there was no fuckin' space on the stage that looked normal!!! And my Swabian flag turned to be a British one suddenly, I don't know how. Really bad jokes and it was funny as well.

Jim: One day at one big festival it was also really funny. There was one guy who threw a bra on stage and I picked it up, put it on my guitar and played with it the whole show, it was that big so we could wear it together.

Hannes: Cool thing was that he said after: Jim I wanna six beers from you!

Hannes: Ok, people call us rock stars, but I wouldn't say that we are rock stars, because I think a rock star is somebody who fills the stadiums with people and plays in front of 50.000 people (and crashing a Ferrari every week, - adds Jim). Maybe we are on the way to be something that they call rock stars but I think nevertheless it's a fabulous life, of course. I mean we are doing nothing more than making music. When I wake up in the morning I'm so glad that I only have to do music to earn my money, to buy food and whatever and it's cool. Well, I do and we all do have in heads some clichés of the rock stars life… Yeah… We had a lot of sex and a lot of rock'n'roll back in the times when were young. We are driving sport cars and that's a cool thing and of course a lot of people know us and sometimes they recognize you on the street and say: "oh yes, can I have an autograph and a picture together".

Jim: I've never imagined that we are that famous, so to speak. I've just realized it. I was on holiday two weeks ago somewhere in the South Bavaria and the neighbor was like "Oh! Would you come to our party? I need to take pictures!" And my friends (they were coming with me) said: "ooooh, not again! sorry!"…

Hannes: And a cool thing that you can come to a party where you don't play and you get your drinks paid by anybody and we never need money when we go partying.  We can call to promoters of big rock festivals and can say: hey, I want to go to your festival today, please, put us to the guest list and "alright, do you need free drinks? No problem, we will do it!"

Jim and Hannes (together): Probably! Kind of! They treat you also as a pretty woman. (Jim is singing Roy Orbison's song: Pretty woman… walking down the street…)

Hannes: I'm absolutely blessed to do this job. As a songwriter and producer for other projects I can call myself really successful which is cool and I'm thankful again to Elephant music for making possible to be a part of this winning team. This is actually cool because to be creative and to keep being creative it's always good if you do different stuff. I mean, with Kissin' Dynamite it's always hard rock, always rock that we do and you can be tired… I don't mean that it sucks but I would say you just need some changes in your life from time to time, I think everybody would say so. And this is a cool thing for my musical career to switch to different projects and to do it in parallel as well. And that's cool 'cos your mind stays fresh. I can do some tracks for Santiano, and then back to Kissin' Dynamite and suddenly I'm like: cool I couldn't have this for Kissin' Dynamite without doing tracks for Santiano.

Hannes: No. I need both. Of course, there was a time when I said 'I only wanna be a rock star playing live on big stages having hundreds of girls' and I had all that. Then it was time when I was like 'I wanna write music for other artists and produce them' and the truth is that the mixture of that is the best thing for me, this is like my personal truth. And I wouldn't give up even one of it.

Jim: The same we all experience in the studio. When you are in studio in the beginning you are really happy: oh, thanks God, no more smelling clubs, no more sweater shows just recording and making new stuff.  And at the end of the studio when we almost finish I just wanna go out and show anybody our new songs and just wanna go to these smaller clubs again.

Hannes: If somebody does this I personally start running, jumping from the stage into the audience with my legs right in his fucking face, kicking down to the ground and telling him to leave this fucking show! (haha) Well, seriously, to be honest I don't see so many faces which I can recognize after the show, it's more like some situation of trance and I see the light shining, I'm blinded by the lights actually. And it also pushes me, and it makes me have more adrenaline, more power and energy on stage. And people always ask after the show 'why did you do it right to me?' But I cannot remember all the time because I'm really in my own world.

Jim: It's like an experience at the big festivals. You feel like on a club stage in front of ten people and then you realize that there are fifty thousand… and you go like: so many people! I didn't recognize it from the stage! It's fun.

Hannes: No. Nothing is official yet. No answers to that point, sorry. We will be back with it shortly.

Hannes and Jim: We think Megalomania was quite close to be a concept one, it was a big story in few songs, not every song actually. The ones like for example, Running Free, Fireflies, Ticket To Paradise are about new horizons, being free, being what you are. And there's a song like VIP In Hell and stuff about being Megalomania. It's not like a concept for the whole album. We would never say never, but there's no plan to do a story for a whole album. But if there's a cool story, why not? We never say never!