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You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.

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Ville Valo
Age: 47
Born: 1976
Born: November 22
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Ville Hermanni Valo
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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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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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I have a big heart and a small brain.
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Every girl has something beautiful in her soul. It doesn't matter if she's fat or thin. That has nothing to do with her personality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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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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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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Women aren't objects that you look at only on weekends.
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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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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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