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

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Ville Valo
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: November 22
Drummer
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Helsingfors
Ville Hermanni Valo
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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.
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The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic
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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.
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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.
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I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
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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.
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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.
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I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.
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Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.
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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.
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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
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We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
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Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Many other artists who sing about hope think that it is something every single person carries within himself. I'm not so sure if that's true. For me, hope is the little light guiding you the way, which reminds you that life does have a sense, that you have goals. To believe in that is often more easily said than done.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas
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Life is short and love is over in the morning.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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