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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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Ville Valo
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: November 22
Drummer
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Helsingfors
Ville Hermanni Valo
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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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.
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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.
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Women are always beautiful.
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Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
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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.
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I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
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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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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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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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I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
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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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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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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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Life is short and love is over in the morning.
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Women are interesting, but that isn't the problem, it is that I like being alone, and I'm also touring so much that it's hard to get a relationship to work.
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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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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.
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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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