The Rasmus Quotes

Lauri: “But usually it doesn’t fit us and it’s extremely uncomfortable..” (talking about the underwear fans throw on the stage) Lauri: “Move your asses!!!”
Lauri: “This is the most selfish job in the world, to talk about yourself all day. Writing your own name on papers, playing your own songs, singing about yourself.”
Lauri: “Music is my way of standing on top of a mountain and going “argh!!!!”"
Lauri: “I started to play the piano when I was five. Then, I beginned to play classical guitare and finnally I started to play the drums. I thought that drums were cool, it was quite physical and it made noise!”
Lauri: “Hey, this is my ass so keep your hands on your own side!”
Lauri: “Yeah, and sometimes it’s pretty funny when we come home like six in the morning and it’s like *mimes drunkenly opening a door* ‘Oh, Eero’s meditating, SHH! BE QUIIIIEEEET!’” (when asked what they think about Eero meditating)
Lauri: “Keep it unreal. I do that 24/7.”
“Interviewer: Are there any scary moments that you can remember? -
Lauri: The first time that I went to Disneyland I was so shocked: there were walking 2 Mickey Mouses! One at the entrance and one at the cowboypark. Man, that was the least thing that I expected!”
“Interviewer: So when you play live you keep your clothes on? Lauri: yeah and the audience takes their clothes off *does the action of a girl lifting her top* LAURI!”
“Interviewer: can you teach me some cool finnish words? words that you can say when you’re go to HELL-sinki?
Lauri:yeah! you can say… Pikkuhiiri!
Interviewer: and what does that mean?
Lauri: you have to find out! can’t tell it on tv…” (Pikkuhiiri means Little Mouse )
Lauri: “It doesn’t matter where we come from, or what we look like, all that matters is what we are.”
“Question: What made you cry or made you very sad?
Lauri: Lion King
Question: The biggest lie I’ve said…
Lauri: I cried when I saw Lion King”
Lauri: “I have a such a hangover. i wanted to do something to look handsome so i put on two ties”
Lauri: “I don’t want fans who love for how i look like, i want fans who desire me for what i am”
Lauri: “Waiting,waiting,waiting-it’s the worst part of shooting a video…” Lauri: “To be famous in France means non-stop french kisses with French ladies”
Lauri: “There are statues of two men holding balls. When no one is looking they kiss and feel each other’s balls!” (about the railway station in Helsinki) Lauri: ”How I succed to stay pale all year ’round? Easy, we spend our whole days in a tourbus!”
“To the Van Gogh Museum or the Red Light District?(in amsterdam)
Lauri: ‘the red light district of course! We love going to stripclubs.’
Aki: ‘It’s a great way to relax.’
Lauri: ‘Except for that certain bodypart, hehe.’
Lauri: “Last night we went to a strip club, and it was really great though I was drunk as hell, but it was wonderful when a few girls stripped to In the Shadows. I was like; ‘hey! that’s my song!’ That was really cool.”
“I: What is the best writing you’ve read from a backstage wall? Lauri: Lauri is God. That was pretty encouraging.
I: Did you write it yourself?
L: Ok, I wrote it, I admit! (laughs)
Do you have time for relationships?
- Yes, we have serious girlfriends in every city.”
Lauri: “i want to see your legs in the air”
Lauri: “In the evenings we have usually eaten candy and went to bed at 9:30 or 10 pm. Really rock ‘n’ roll!”
Lauri: “We don’t fear who is obvious. We fear who is invisible!”
Lauri: ”Originally I was to become Laura, but then a little thing between my legs got in the way” –Lauri, Ilta-sanomat, 1996
Lauri: “Lauri: The most important thing of course is to love and ride into the sunset together.”
“Question: What’s you secret passion?
Lauri: *trying not to laugh* Umm…uhh…I dunno…uhh…drinking!
Mike: What’s the weirdest place you’ve ever woken up in at 3 in the morning?
Lauri: A graveyard
Mike: Were you naked?
Lauri: Yes
Mike: Why were you there?
Lauri: I don’t quite remember”
“The radioguy: So your video In My Life, it was made in Cuba. Did you have fun making it?
Aki: Well, Lauri was disapointed when he did not get a fight with a crocodile after all.
Lauri: Yeah. But I rolled in mud. That was kinky!”
“Aki: I like cats too! I have ten… oh, no, I’m joking, but I like them.
Lauri: Ten… really?”
LAURI: “ideal boobs?? one must be natural and the other-silicone, i think it will be interesting”
Pauli: “If you can doing something good, share it with the others”
“Which type is of fan a good fan?
Eero: All Rasmusfans are good fans.”
Lauri: ”I don’t know what’ gonna happen next year, next month, not even tomorrow so I’m living as fast as i can”
Pauli about meeting Aki: “Oh yeah, I had this tipaton tammikuu (no alcohol in January) type of thing going on and I was in this restaurant really relaxed when Aki comes yelling to my ear dead drunk and was about to get his ass kicked on my behalf. I hated him, he was really annoying guy.”
Aki: “Sometimes It’s nice to go crazy”
Pauli with a cig in his hands: “I DON’T SMOKE!!!”
Lauri: “Yesterday a fan bit me on the hand while another pulled my hair,”
Eero: “So if you plan to become a rockstar, remember this: you might become bald and lose some fingers!”
Lauri: “I belive that the devil lives in everyone, even in me”
Who would you say is the nudist of the bunch? Who would be the one to walk around naked?
Aki: Sounds like me.
“What part of the house do you hate to clean?
Eero: basement
Pauli: kitchen
Aki: I love to clean my place!
Lauri: every part”
“If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Lauri- lauri, you’ve been a good boy.”
What makes you happy and what angry?
Lauri: “Friday night at Tavastia makes me happy. Saturday morning in a wrong place makes me angry. “
Tell us some secret that never said to somebody
Aki: ahm… well Lauri and me are married!
Lauri: erhmmm yeah! we married the day after tomorrow”
“Ville: in my opinion it’s difficult to hear the music of The Rasmus or Negative. How should i listen a ballade if i saw the singer having a shit on the toilet?
Lauri: WHAT????
Ville: That was a joke”
Journalist: What color do you wear in your underwear, also black?
Lauri: Rockstars don´t wear underwear!
Lauri: “Hello, oh I’m fuckin’ fine! oh damn, i’m sorry”
In Plus Sur Commande Interview they should say the first thing that comes to their minds hearing a word:
INt:Bathroom!
Lauri:Sex
Lauri: “How can you be a sex symbol?” “Wear more make up than your girlfriend, run over a bird on the road put its feathers in your hair”
Lauri: “Pop music is poisoning people’s minds”
Lauri: “It’s better to take some risks in life, and just throw oneself in to it”
Aki: “One of our websites told that Lauri is quitting the band because he’s pregnant!”