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Ville Valo Quotes
• I have a big heart and a small brain.
• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
• I love hearts. They are symbols for life, love and humanity.
• 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.
• It's horrible when you're giving a microphone a blowjob and it's giving you negative feedback.
• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
• I hate talking about my own songs. They're all about women anyway...
• I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
• They'd double-booked the whole place, so at the same time, Playboy was shooting films there. So we're in this nunnery where Playboy models were hanging around, and we were talking about porn and recording a rock record — pretty good combination, you know?
• 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.
• Hurting linde is like hurting bambi, you just can't do it.
• 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.
• Women are always beautiful.
• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
• 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.
• I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
• 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.
• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
• I've always been a huge reggae fan.
• I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
• We're in a wonderful situation that there are loads of American record companies that like what we do. And that's a lovely thing.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
• 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.
• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
• No matter how hard you work on stuff back in your bedroom to get it perfect, you're never going to do it correctly.
• The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
• 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.
• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Everyone wants to pretend their cock is big and metal is the medium, but ultimately it's about the songs.
• I know all men think with their dicks but my dick's different.
• I've never had casual sex, I have always dated the girls I've done pyshical things with. I like knowing the person and them knowing me.
Ville Valo Album Discography with HIM
2007 - Venus Doom
2007 - Uneasy Listening Vol. 2
2006 - Uneasy Listening Vol. 1
2005 - Dark Light
2004 - Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666/Razorblade Romance/Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
2004 - And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997-2004
2003 - Love Metal
2002 - The Single Collection
2001 - Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
1999 - Razorblade Romance
1997 - Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
1996 - 666 Ways to Love: Prologue
1995 - This Is Only the Beginning
1992 - Witches and Other Night Fears
Ville Valo Hit Single Discography with HIM
2007 - Bleed Well2007 - The Kiss of Dawn
2006 - In Joy and Sorrow
2006 - Killing Loneliness
2005 - Vampire Heart
2005 - Wings of a Butterfly
2004 - And Love Said No
2004 - Solitary Man
2003 - The Sacrament
2003 - Buried Alive By Love
2003 - The Funeral of Hearts
2002 - Heartache Every Moment & Close to the Flame
2001 - In Joy and Sorrow
2001 - Pretending
2000 - Wicked Game
2000 - Your Sweet Six Six Six
2000 - Gone With the Sin
2000 - Poison Girl
2000 - Right Here in My Arms
1999 - Join Me in Death
1999 - It's All Tears (Drown in This Love)
1998 - When Love and Death Embrace
1998 - Wicked Game
1998 - Your Sweet Six Six Six
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