The highlights from the interview in Focus Knack

• A Dutch journalist described Vantage Point as testosteronrock
• Tom admits that they've cultivated the conflict-model in the early days of dEUS
• Mauro has influenced Tom to start working faster (Mauro released four albums between Pocket Revolution and Vantage Point)
• Renaat Lambeets in one of his most important friends and Tom finds his opinion important
• There's a cover of The Alcoholics by Jim Thompson on the back of Pocket Revolution
• He thinks the concert at Werchter 2006 was one of the best ones they've ever played
• There will be a gig in Antwerp in autumn, on a special date, on a special place
• He would never uses djembés and he will never uses words like monkey and guitar in his lyrics
• He hates to write songs about the songwriting itself
• The Manu Riche-documentary will probably be released by the end of the year
• He would like to ask James Gray for the recording of a clip
• Tom is making clips for every song on Vantage Point
• He thinks it's great that some fashion-designers use dEUS-songs at their defilés
• Martin Margiela used Roses once
• Dries Van Noten asked for a 13-minute version of Bad Timing last winter
• about the capitals in dEUS: Tom thought Deus was ugly typograficly
• Add (N) To (X) also has a song about Buckminster Fuller
• He doesn't want to go in politics, making music and movies is what he wants to do
• He mostly writes his lyrics minutes before they start recording
• Tom thinks his lyrics are way too long most of the time
• About the fans asking for old songs: Zea is too old, Right As Rain is too slow, but Great American Nude could be great
• Klaas has been asking to get Roses from the setlist for years
• There will be a day that they will only play new stuff during gigs
• CJ Bolland's father helped them with the building of the control room in the studio
• They also got help from Albi, a 74 year old guy who used to work in Abbey Road