Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me. Ville Valo More Quotes by Ville Valo More Quotes From Ville Valo 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. Ville Valo beautiful kids years 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 Ville Valo make-you-think art thinking Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. Ville Valo outsiders blame art 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. Ville Valo achievement song night Life is short and love is over in the morning. Ville Valo life-is-short morning love-is 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. Ville Valo emotional stupid thinking 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. Ville Valo like-being-alone problem interesting Women aren't objects that you look at only on weekends. Ville Valo objects weekend looks 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. Ville Valo beautiful people ideas 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. Ville Valo my-best-friend music-is friendship You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you. Ville Valo myth people Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under Ville Valo dose madness love-is A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. Ville Valo erotic evening sex 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. Ville Valo heart song talking 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. Ville Valo romance writing people 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. Ville Valo track journey writing 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. Ville Valo hate people thinking The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays. Ville Valo kissing guy use 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. Ville Valo drug successful age 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. Ville Valo rocks nice home
