MUSICAL MEMORY
First:	When I was two years old I remember getting some bongos down from my parents' bookshelf and banging away on them while their friend (a grat Elvis impersonator) sang "heartbreak hotel"
Worst:	When we played in New York a year ago. I was totally fucking out of it. We got so many complaints about that gig."
GIRLFRIEND
First:	I had a crush on this girl and I showed my love by throwing stones at her. She got bruises all over her body, so that didn't work out.
Worst:	I suppose my fiancé.. she is the best and the worst at the same time.
SNOG
First:	I was about 13 and it was a full on Frenchie, which I didn't expect. I still had chewing gum in my mouth, wich was embarrassing. It was such a strange feeling to have someone's tongue in my mouth.
Worst:	It was with the 'first time' girl and we went to bed to kiss some more, but I was so drunk that I puked on her.
SEX
First:	I remember this garage that always had pin-up calendars. I was probably only three years old but it was my first proper boner. I was like, 'What's this happening inside my pants?'
Worst:	When I was a lot younger I remember coming really quickly. Even though I was really young it was still mortifying.
GIG
First:	The first gig I remember was Iron Maiden at the Helsinki Ice Hall in '87 - 'Somewhere On Tour'. WASP supported, and Blackie [Lawless] had the exploding codpiece.
Worst:	I was really into jazz. I wanted to be really arty-farty. I went to this avant-garde gig and this guy was reciting poetry in German while the drummer threw dried peas at the audience.
ROYALTY CHEQUE
First:	It was like... fifteen quid. I bought four beers to celebrate, and then it was gone!
Worst:	I'd borrowed loads of money from people and promised to pay it back on the day the label paid us. When they didn't pay I had to go into hiding for two weeks until the cheque came through.
HIM GIG
First:	We were a three-piece at the time, I played guitar parts on a six-string bass. We got on stage, and all the amplifiers blew at exactly the same time.
Worst:	We played with Godsmack in Finland in the middle of winter and we were completely hunghover. We played like shit and the audience didn't move a muscle.
'FAN' EXPERIENCE
First:	We won an award in 2001, and Iggy Pop presented it to us. I was wearing a jacket that said 'Your pretty face is going to hell' on the back. He said 'ooh, young man, you have great taste in clothing'. That was simply amazing.
Worst:	There was one lady who tried to get to know me by attacking me with a pair of scissors - cutting bits of my hair out. I was in a bar once and I heard this 'schnick' noise, I turn round and she's there cutting my hair off, crying and laughing like a proper real life lunatic.
ALCOHOL
First:	Getting drunk was easy; a bottle of red wine and three beers and I was sick all over the place. I was probably 12 or 13.
Worst:	Once I got so drunk and depressed after a bad gig that I was doing tightrope walking on the hotel balcony railing of the 13th floor. Thank God Linde came and rescued me.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
First:	An Ibanez guitar. I snapped two strings and thought the whole thing was broken so my friends and I went into the yard and destroyed the guitar. Later on someone told me you can change the strings.
Worst:	We were so bored on one tour that we all boughts silly instruments, and I got a violin. I couldn't play it so it sounded horrendous. The band just stole it and I haven't seen it since.
TROUBLE WITH THE LAW
First:	We broke into an old shopping mall, and it just so happened that some other people had broken in and started smashing things up so the police had been called. That took a long time to explain.
Worst:	Me and a friend were driving around Finland, and we ended up driving the same route as a couple of fugitive bank robbers. The police thought we were the robbers and started ringing our parents. Luckily for us they caught the robbers and we didn't get arrested.
CRUSH
First:	Probably Madonna. She was always a bit more risqué than the rest. Madonna's the reason I first started wanking.
Worst:	I had a crush on David Hasselhoff, I wanted to be in his pants but in a platonic way. I think I probably wanted to be like him.

My First - My Worst. with Ville Valo.