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HIM Updates: Zillo mag translation

Zillo mag translation

With special thanks & credit to: ava_1985 at http://members.fotki.com/Ava1985/ I give you the translatation to the Zillo magazine article:

Ville Valo- Personally

Z: So you like reading books on tour?

V: I buy them but I never read them (laughing). At home I have a lot’ s of books maybe 1500 exemplars and I’ve read 70% of them. So there are some books I haven’t touched because I didn’t have the time, yet. Especially in the US there are many people who are giving books to me. The world of poetry is so big, it’s impossible to know every author. But dear people, thank you very much for giving books to me. I also have one from Goethe ‘Die Sorrows of the young Werther’ or something like that.

Z: ‘Die Leiden des jungen Werther’!

V: Yes, I also got this one but I didn’t have the time to read it. Right now I am travelling with 4 books and yesterday I finished ‘Last exit to Brooklyn’ by Hubert Selby jr.. He also wrote ‘Requiem for a Dream’ just in case you know the film with Jared Leto and the junkies. Anyway, Hubert Selby jr. is a great author.

Z: If you wrote a book yourself, which genre would it be?

V: Probably it would only be one page (laughing). I write a lot for the band and every line in a song is like a novel for me. Writing lyrics for a song is like literary minimalism. Mige our bassist should write a book! He is very talented especially in finish language. He is very good in languages. But he’s writing things in a very weird manner. They are very funny but at the same time straight forward.

Z: Have you ever let your life or your lyrics getting influenced by your dreams?

V: Partly, yes. I wrote diary when I was younger. I don’t know how you are dreaming, for example but I am dreaming a lot of really realistic things that could have happened like that. And when I wake up in the morning I am not so sure if I dreamed it or if it really happened. For example I dreamed going to a grocery buying milk or going to the doctor. And when we’re working on an album I’m usually dreaming about being in the studio.

Z: What was the craziest rumor you ever heard about HIM or yourself?

V: There are not so many crazy, just the usual ones that we all got many babies all over the world, which is not true. When I started to wear that beanie there was a rumor that I have cancer and going through a chemotherapy and that’s why I’m wearing it. But the true reason I‘m wearing it is that you don’t have to wash your hair so often and that it functions as ear-plugs because my ears got very sensitive during the years of touring. But actually there never was a bad rumor about us plus we have a dark, macabre sense of humor. That’s why we can laugh about basically everything.

Z: You spent a lot of time in the US lately and have been very successful. Are you happy with your life right now or are you missing any aspects?

V: Yes I miss ‘a piece of ass’ that would be a good answer to that question! I’m single for around a year now, that’s why a relationship would be nice. But I don’t want to moan. There are lots of things in everybody’s lives missing and you can always complain a lot but you know that’s okay. I’m in a very successful band and I have everything for living.

Z: If you have something on your mind, who in the band would be the best listener?

V: They are all quite good in listening. Linde our guitar player is the quietest so usually it’s difficult to start a serious conversation with him because he doesn’t talk much. Gas is a good auditor and Mige as well. But Mige and I normally talk about philosophical things. He’s not getting earnestly but very detailed. I don’t know why even though we know each other for so long. And I’m fine with Burton as well.

Z: In your career you have been working on many side-projects. You worked with bands like Apocalyptica, the Bloodhound Gang and Manna. Is there a highlight you would like to mention?

V: A personal highlight for me was my singing in ‘The Byronic Man’ by Cradle of Filth, because I am a big fan of Cradle of Filth. I met Dani a couple of times. I like the guys and love their music. But there were also many other things that I liked, for example that ‘Summer Wine’ thing, that worked very well. They asked me if I wanted to sing the song and I had to think about it for just one second and then said yes because the studio was in Hamburg where I have a lot of friends. That’s why I thought I was getting free holiday and eventually it was like that. So I had a free flight to Hamburg, 4 days hard party, a little bit of singing in between and standing in front of the camera for one or two seconds.

Z: Can you name reasons you would forbear from music business?

V: A business is always good as long as there IS a business and you are good at it. As long as it is a business that pays you are doing fine. The more money, the better. This is how the white man dreams of heaven I think. Just to have a full bank account all the time so that you don’t have to do anything. But in the music business it can be really frustrating when it comes to creativity. I mean when the songs don’t end up as good as usually planned, when you are unable to create content lyrics. You can also play bad gigs and being fucked up. Of course you can’t be perfect all the time. You just have to be patient. The older I get the more demur I get, the more boring gets for example touring because there are just not so many things to do. What are you doing here in Cologne? Nothing! I have seen the city a hundreds of times. I’m not interested in museums, in sports, in the Claudius Therme or in religion. And since I am not drinking anymore I don’t have so many options (smiling).

Z: What means your home Helsinki to you?

V: I know many people up there. Helsinki is the place I’ve spend most of the time of my previous life. My parents and my brother live there, my friends and everybody in the band, our manager Seppo as well. And we have our rehearsal place up there. Let me put it like this: It’s a centered area where plenty of people live that mean a lot to me. It doesn’t matter where I am. Nowadays I’m spending more time abroad that being at my home.

Z: Like you just said, your family lives in Helsinki. Whose genes did you inherit, your mothers or your fathers?

V: I’d say 50:50. I got the eyes and the impatience of my mother and the sense of humor and bone structure of my Dad (smiling)

Z: Is your brother Jesse alike you?

V: Oh, no. He is lion. Normally, I don’t believe in horoscopes but my brother is totally different than me. He is a musician as well, you know. He’s playing bass in some bands and writing lyrics, he’s working on it. He is a great guy and we are getting along with each other very well. Since he is working with music we have a lot to discuss. We see each other more often and because it’s been a while I have been to the bar to get drunk our meetings have become a little more creative and constructive.

Z: Are you a person that sticks to traditions?

V: It depends on the tradition. We try to… Oh my God, my mother’s birthday is in two days! I almost forgot (laughing)! You know we celebrate the basics. No Easter but Christmas but in a non-religious way. We just meet with the family and talk about things happened during the past year.

Z: When you are coming home from this tour, what will be the first thing you are doing?

V: I’m plainly going home to sleep. That’s what I’m going to do. I will re-arrange some furniture and getting my telly working. One of my friends is doing some renovation in my place right now. He’s doing some little tiny things. It’s a good project to get your head free from music and travelling when you are just concentrating at your home, the place where you are living in fact.

Z: How many times have you seen your own bed lately?

V: I don’t sleep in any bed when I’m at home. I decorated this little tiny room. There is a mattress but no real bed. It’s difficult to explain. It looks like the recreation of a bunk. It gives me a feeling of coziness. At some point you get used to the fact there is no sunlight in bulks. That’s why I have a room painted in black. It is really small, like a guest-room and without windows. I’m sleeping wonderfully in it (smiling).

PLEASE! Do NOT repost this unless you have permission from ava_1985, herself (see link above), since she went thru the trouble to translate the article. Do as I have done & ask her first. Thank you.
-Magik