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Ville Valo Biography

Ville Hermanni Valo (born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the Finnish gothic rock band HIM. Influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath and Type O Negative, Valo began his career playing bass and drums in various bands around Helsinki, before forming HIM in 1991. The band would go on to become one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time, and the first to receive a gold record in the United States. Valo is also credited as the creator of the heartagram, the trademarked symbol of HIM. The band announced their plans to retire following a farewell tour, and played their final show on New Year's Eve 2017.

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

Beautiful, Mistake, Mistakes, Next, Time

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

Create, Myth, People

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

Art, Blame, Criticized, Outsiders

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Funeral, Heart, Hearts, Love, Love Is

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.

Interesting, Like, Like Being Alone, Problem, Touring, Work

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

Acted, Interested

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.

Journey, Place, Rehearsal, Track, Writing, Yeah

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.

Bands, Couple, Hate, Play, Proud

Life is short and love is over in the morning.

Life, Life Is Short, Love, Love Is, Morning, Short

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.

Business, Course, Know, Los Angeles, Music, New York

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.

Back, Home, Mellow, Nice, Rock, Rocks

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

Art, Cool, Latter, Make You Think, Think, Thinking

Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.

Butterfly, Personality, Tattoo, Tattooed, Understood, Wall

A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one.

Erotic, Evening, Right, Sex

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

Dose, Doses, Love, Love Is, Madness

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.

Albums, American, Interested, One Day, People, Possible

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.

Band, Beautiful, Hopefully, Ideas, People, Topic

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.

Cathartic, Drug, Everyday, Good, Song

Many other artists who sing about hope think that it is something every single person carries within himself. I'm not so sure if that's true. For me, hope is the little light guiding you the way, which reminds you that life does have a sense, that you have goals. To believe in that is often more easily said than done.

Artist, Believe, Sing, Think, Thinking

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

East, Redneck, Rednecks, Run, Running, Toured

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