Ville Valo Quotes

I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.

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.

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

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

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

The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic

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.

In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

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

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.

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.

Women are always beautiful.

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.

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 have a big heart and a small brain.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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