apocalyptica

Apocalyptica quotes

About Finns and Finland

About music

About cellos

About oneself

About band

Apocalyptica and fans

About Finland and Finns:

Paavo: "My best trait? You know Finns are not saying any best traits."

Paavo: "Finnish people are basically not talking bullshit - if they want to say something, they will say it straight and honestly."

Eicca (about Finland): "We have a strange language..."

Eicca: "Sweden is a pop country, Finland is a rock country"

Perttu: "The truth is that in our country, also because of the weather, we don’t have many things to do, nothing special ever happens and that’s why we put so much effort in actually making sth good. We feel very melancholic in general."

Eicca: "We make things which we otherwise never would do. Go to places which we would never seek. Extreme situations. We Finns like that. Heat. Cold."

Eicca: "It's very common! Being naked in Finland."

About music:

Eicca: "The meaning of music basically is to create a space for your mind. You know that when you listen to music that music creates head room in your head and for your feelings and you can actually handle your feelings".

Paavo: "Music comes from the head and heart, and the head is the shaker, where you put all the kind of things you love"

Perttu: "People would never guess, but we want to have a soul kind of song".

Perttu: "The good thing about orchestral music is that it can create different feelings for each and every one of us."

Eicca: "I understand nothing about writing lyrics. For me it's like a black area!"

Eicca (about Finnish music): "Finnish music is in the minor key; if people wrote music like that in other countries, they’d be taken for suicide freaks! But Finnish people aren’t as depressed as you’d think..."

Perttu: "Music is like a big cake, that consists of many pieces with different flavours. You just cut and take the one you like..."

Perttu: "We always have group sex in the studio. Music is love between men".

Perttu: "What you have to do is collect experiences and feelings, put them into music and then each listener’s imaginations can fly away."

Paavo: "Lyrics limit the fantasy".

Eicca: "We've always been playing cello with no lyrics, so for us, it's nothing strange. Sometimes you can tell much more by the music than the lyrics".

Eicca (on being asking about any favorite classical composers): "Mine is Shostakovitch, but you shouldn’t listen to him in the summer. He’s no good for Summer."

About Cellos:

Perttu (about Antero and his exploising cello): "It was easier to make him play this cello than trying to give him leather-pants."

Perttu: "I think that the sound of cello is very melancholic and also very dark."

Interviewer: "So, a guy with a cello is a damn site more sexy than Keith Richards with a guitar?"
Eicca: "DEFINITELY... you will see."

Perttu (on being asked if he ever plays cello on the toilet): "No it's too small, but sometimes I need a toilet on stage".
Eicca: "Joo. Perttu gets diarrhea always."

Paavo: "No, no, no, no!!! Not violins!!!!"

Perttu: "Don't know how it happens. BUT, i always hit the head against the cello."

Q: "Why are cellos so sexy?"
Perttu: "Firstly, we keep them between our legs."

Eicca: "Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments."

About the band:

Perttu: Eicca's way of playing is more like rock. He’s a bit more brutal, and rhythmically more precise, and I play more beautiful.

Perttu (about lights onstage): "They are nice, but I don't see them because they are behind me."

Eicca: "Paavo is very nice to people".
Paavo: "But that is a bad habit".

Eicca: "Perttu is Sleeping Beauty".

Eicca: "Mikko is animal on stage".

Perttu (being asking are the concert chairs comfortable): "I don't know, I don't sit too much, ask Antero".

Mikko: "I'm the one that always tries to push this guys to play without me on shows".

Eicca: "We are the most smiling metal band in the world."

Mikko (about Dave Lombardo): "I think he is lunatic as we are."

Perttu: "Antero has a Terminator kind of seeing system..."

Paavo: "We don't drink much if we play the next day".

Eicca: "We just spent all our money on the videos".

Eicca: "Perttu composed like a maniac in the summer".

Paavo: "Antero, a very cool and wise guy."

Antero: "Ja, Perttu has an ego 50 kilometres wide".

Eicca: "Perttu got a little excited during that last song. Let's calm him down with some Slayer"...

Eicca: "Yeah! We're always nude when we are together!"

Perttu (on being asked how he scores Eicca out of ten for kissing): "Eicca is good to kiss and he has nice body - but no tits."

Paavo: "Antero is very cool on the outside, but inside he rages."

Eicca: "Perttu has always been a very, very hard cello-player."

Perttu (on being asked if he's ever called Pera): "I HATE that name. Him - THAT guy (pointing at Eicca) He calls me that!"
Eicca (on being asked why he calls Perttu 'Pera'): "Because I likes to tease him and make him mad."

About oneself:

Perttu (about Antero and his exploising cello): "It was easier to make him play this cello than trying to give him leather-pants".

Perttu: "Eicca's way of playing is more like rock. He’s a bit more brutal, and rhythmically more precise, and I play more beautiful."

Perttu: "I'm really this kind of person to show, quite clearly, my moods."

Mikko: "I think all of us are the kind of persons that we would get bored if we wouldn’t change anything."

Paavo: "You know, if you have two beers your energy level goes down, that’s why I never drink so much."

Paavo: "I am flying all the time in my dreams".

Eicca: "I am really good at organizing things and making things to happen when they are needed to".

Eicca: "Worst habit is I would say is that I easily overload myself which creates a chain reaction which makes me sometimes really mean".

Paavo: "I am sometimes a bit cranky".

Mikko: "I think it's always interesting to pull out something really unexpected".

Eicca: "I'm actually the only one who played all the shows this year, from the band".

Perttu: "Sorrow and anger are surely inspiring for me, but sometimes I am inspired by positive feelings as well."

Antero: "No, it's ANtero and not AnTEro."

Perttu: "Look at my lunch in Poland, isn't this disgusting?"

Antero: "It's not THAT hairy!"

Perttu (leaning against the door after hard, hot gig): "My body is broken!"

Perttu (being asking how do he kill time when he in the bus): "Smoking cigarettes and talking shit !!"

Perttu: "Kitchen...What's that?"

Perttu (on the Phorum): "I would prefer to be James Bond - not more or less."

Perttu: "I'm actually pretty bad guitarist... You can't play cello in bed and most of the best ideas comes during night in the darkness...lying naked with the cold guitar on your skin...oo...maybe i should stop before it's too late...!!!!!!"

Perttu (being asking who is the most weirdy man in the band): "It HAS to be me. There's no other options!!!"

Perttu: (after attempting to sing during an interview) "Maybe I should just... play."

Perttu: "And I was driving towards the ditch - with VERY high speed..."
Eicca: "Yeah he was driving around, in the first gear always".

Apo and fans

Imre: What is the best part about touring?
Paavo: Meeting nice girls...

Eicca: "In Germany and Central Europe we see the same faces for ten years already in the front row".

Antero (being asking if it's true that he is afraid of fans): "No, the fans are afraid of me".

Eicca: "I have to say that there are more girls coming to our show than to the Rammstein shows! But we are not interested in groupies - we are all old and married men!"

Fan-girl whisper something to Paavo
Paavo: "NO! I'm married!..."

Eicca: "Sauna and concert areas should be separated".

Perttu (locking Antero out of the van): "We don't need you any more!"
Deby to Antero, who's just been locked out of the van by Perttu: "Are you staying here with us?" (us = fans)
Antero, with horrified look: "NO!"
Antero (on being told he wasn't quite so cool after all): "Perhaps."

fan: "Please write something nice."
Perttu (writing in finnish): "Something nice".

Perttu: "WHAT?? I stink??"
Nika and Katti immediately: "No, not you.... it's an inside joke".
Perttu: "Ah - ok".

Eicca: "No i'm not staying here. You might kidnap me and beat me!"
Terrë: "I wouldn't beat you...."

Fan (on the Apo-forum): "Perttu, I love you. Will you marry me?"
Perttu: "This is so sudden. Can I think about it?"