Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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.
I don't eat meat on tour, because it is too heavy. I wouldn't be able to move my hips on stage if I'd eat those heavy foods.
I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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 heard the debut of Black Sabbath as a teenager and decided to become a singer.
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.
I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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.
I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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.
It's cool when young people get into Jet and all that stuff but it's a shame when they can't admit all their influences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No matter how hard you work on stuff back in your bedroom to get it perfect, you're never going to do it correctly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
This can sound kinky but I only relax at work. Either on a gig or rehearsing with the band. I get total peace of mind on gigs.
Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.
We have never been a druggy band, we have always been dating, we have always had our girlfriends at home, and we have been 95% faithful, we've made mistakes, but have suffered for our sins.
We haven't properly toured America, Canada, Australia or Japan, so there's lots of places still to go to, we are in no hurry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Women are always beautiful.
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 Heartagram (designed by Ville) is like a ying-yang, signifying good and evil.
Ville and Linde played in two bands before HIM – Blood and Kemoterapia.
HIM uses the Heartagram, which is a combination of a heart and a pentagram, as its logo. Ville designed this symbol.
When he was younger, Ville worked in his father’s sex shop.
Ville Valo claims he speaks English from watching subtitled cartoons.
The band Daniel Lioneye and The Rollers features three members of HIM – Linde is the guitarist and lead singer, Ville is the drummer and Mige is the bassist.
Ville Valo, the lead singer of HIM, has recorded several songs with The 69 Eyes, another Finnish band.
Bam Margera's friend. Also appears in his show: Viva La Bam.
He created the bands logo, a Heartagram.
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