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I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

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Saved, Role, Mum, Gutter

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

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Love, Country, I Love, Johnny

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

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New, Next, Always, Next Time

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

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Art, Blame, Always, Criticized

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.

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Asthma, Weeks, Almost, Two Weeks

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

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Death, Some, I Think, Infernal

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.

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Love, Falling, Best Way, Love Is

I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

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Love, Very, Melodic, Iggy

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

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Over, Books, Lot, CDs

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.

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Kid, Young, Sabbath, Led Zeppelin

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.

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Doing, Think, I Think, Cant

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.

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Big, Been, Cities, Travelled

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

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West, East, Unfortunately, Toured

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.

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New, Big, Angeles, Newcomers

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.

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Song, Notes, Covering, Struck

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.

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Big, Go, Always, Flow

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.

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Song, Always, Been, Pressures

I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

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Love, Pop, I Love, Lyrics

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.

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Doing, Some, Always, Grab

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.

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Through, Like, Which, Conversation

Women are always beautiful.

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Beautiful, Women, Always, Women Are

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.

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Doing, Through, Romance, Same Things

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.

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Fact, Emotional, Like, Tool

Love is the funeral of hearts.

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Love, Funeral, Hearts, Love Is

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

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Never, Either, Interested, Acted

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.

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Aware, Weird Thing, Bands, Early Age

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

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Play, Trying, Opposed, Odd

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

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Always, Fan, Been, Reggae

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.

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Over, Like, About, Puzzle

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.

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Other, One Day, Albums, Hopefully

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