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Ville Valo Quotes

I’m a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

– Ville Valo

I hate it when bands do that; they’re so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

– Ville Valo

I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

– Ville Valo

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

– Ville Valo

There’s always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they’re beautiful mistakes.

– Ville Valo

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

– Ville Valo

Yeah I’m still writing. I’ve got about 14 tracks now. But we’ve been on tour so we haven’t had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

– Ville Valo

I’m only 26 – I don’t know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

– Ville Valo

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

– Ville Valo

Women are always beautiful.

– Ville Valo

I’ve always been a huge reggae fan.

– Ville Valo

I’ve got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I’ve taken better care of my illness.

– Ville Valo

Love is the funeral of hearts.

– Ville Valo

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It’s not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It’s about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

– Ville Valo

I’m living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

– Ville Valo

I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

– Ville Valo

Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I’m hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we’ve done.

– Ville Valo

Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens.

– Ville Valo

It’s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

– Ville Valo

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

– Ville Valo

I love the song ‘Into the Night.’ It’s Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super ’60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

– Ville Valo

Some genres I’m not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

– Ville Valo

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it’s not yours anymore. It’s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

– Ville Valo

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don’t think all those things shut each other out.

– Ville Valo

I haven’t been baptised. My dad’s not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual – she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I’m proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I’m still looking for my god.

– Ville Valo

Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

– Ville Valo