Here are the main items of the interview with Tom in the Flemish press.

• after Craig and Danny left, he had Mauro in very fast, but he hadn't taken enough time to process everything
• Tom finally broke down: he couldn't sing and write anymore
• he's keeping a diary now: that way he can see things he went through in the future and use it for healing
• he's happy to see everbody's focused
• he had just learnt his father only married at 35 and his glad to know. He had the feeling he was missing things
• during the past 15 years the importance of music in his life has grown
• Pocket Revolution and Include Me Out have helped him to get through the hard period
• the best compliment he received is that people see them as survivors of the nineties
• there were times when he thought everything on MTV was better than dEUS
• Tom describes himself as a drama queen
• becoming 30 made Tom doubt even more
• the light at the end of the tunnel came in Spain when he was driving to a soccer match in Malaga with Filip Eyckmans. They listened to (a rough mix) of the album in the car.
• he didn't read the bad reviews of last year's summer tour because he was in Portugal
• he wears all media-attention for dEUS as a badge of honor (there aren't that many Belgian bands who line-up changes get into the newspaper, ...)
• he's glad they produced the album themselves
• Craig described Tom as a PJ arvey: he surrounds himself with talented people, but not forever
• Stef and Rudy leaving was a picknick compared to last year's break up
• they share a tourmanager with Nick Cave
• Craig was a perfect klankbord: ,,if he said it's ok, then it's ok"
• he has never written a song after dreaming about it at night. He only got out of bed for Dream Sequence in Ronda
• he's feeling good in Antwerpen (again): he's gonna buy a place to live
• his mother is in the final scene of AWTWB, she comes and sees concerts from time to time
• he tought a lot about his father in the studio
• Right as rain was written right after his father's death at the time Tom and Stef lived together
• his moviecharacters are based on persons he knows, his songs on himself
• he had a tought time writing the lyrics because he was trying to bring it to an higher level
• Tom had a writer's block: all his ideas are on PR, there are no other songs on the shelve
• dEUS is not a group of friends, there's just mutual respect
• Klaas thought Tom was showing off too much in the early years
• he's getting nervous from all Tom-and-Stef-hyping
• Danny is throwing mud because he had a bad conscience
• breaking up with Craig was harder: he wrote Tom a letter with all his mistakes
• Revenge was one of the motivations while recording PR
• "I'm not a tyran, i'm just he guy who has the vision"
• dEUs is not Tom's solo project: all members can contribute songs. Tom is disappointed they don't.
• Alan was the first one in 15 years asking him what a song was about
• PR would be his father's favorite record
• he thinks positive feedback from elderly people is important
• his mother thinks PR is the best dEUS-album so far. She likes the harder songs a lot
• one of the working title was Used Future. They dropped Future because it was too techno. Used referred to Tom's feeling and it's an anagram for dEUS
• he asked Craig to come back at the end of 2002. Craig wanted to, but he didn't want to invest emotionally in the band
• they signed V2 because the local affiliates were very enthusiast to promote the album
• they left Island without problems: they could take everything they recorded
• The album is financed by Island, V2 and Universal Belgium
• they made a lot of mistakes during last year's tour
• Mauro worked hard on the new songs and kept a distance, while CJ was Tom's personal coach
• PR is a guitar-record because Tom wanted a lot of uptempo songs
• Tom agrees he's singing better than ever
• he's happy the press welcomes them as survivors of the nineties
• he never tought dEUS would be forgotten because they built a big fanbase during the years
• he has considered blowing dEUS up
• he did about 250 interviews the last weeks
• ,,PR is a victory"
• he wants everybody to be focused. Showing up halfdrunk and 1,5 hours too late is no longer tolerated
• My Sister=My Clock was mistake because it slowed things down in the UK
• Bill Funk on Cold Sun Of Circumstance is a technician from ICP-studio's
• Interrogation was also a working title because Christian once said Tom did no more than interrogating himself
• the leaking of PR comes from a Italian, German of Swiss journalist
• he's disguted about the mentality of downloaders
• there's a lot of hatred in Pocket Revolution
• Tom played 7 days the first time for his mother and sister. His sister thinks it too confronting
• he hopes to work on a moviescript during the tour, he'd like to make a comedy