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Ville Valo

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 22, 1976

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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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'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 have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

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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.

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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

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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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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.

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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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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've always been a huge reggae fan.

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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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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

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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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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 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.

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