Ville Valo Quotes

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.

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.

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.

I have a big heart and a small brain.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Women are always beautiful.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

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.

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.

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.

I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

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.

There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Women aren't objects that you look at only on weekends.

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.

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

Love is madness, you can't put it in doses, it either surges over or under

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.

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.

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

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.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

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

I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

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 hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

Life is short and love is over in the morning.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

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

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

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.

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.