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

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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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Travel
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Music
Right
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
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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.
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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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Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under
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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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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.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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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.
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Life is short and love is over in the morning.
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It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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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.
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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.
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Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.
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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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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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The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart
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I have a big heart and a small brain.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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