Quotes

For me, it is incredible to hear singers in the metal scene telling me I had been their inspiration.

It is vital for me to make progress as a lyrical singer since it also helps me to sing rock better.

Music is emotion; it's a beautiful thing that connects people despite their age or differences or cultural differences and anything. We are still the same, and we can love the same things.

I've always enjoyed the respect from my male colleagues or my audiences all over the world. I've never suffered by the fact of being a woman on the road.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.

I was with Nightwish for such a long time that I still feel the band as a part of myself. I was one of the most important elements in Nightwish for nine years, and the band was an essential part of myself too.

In the beginning of my career, I didn't have any female singer in metal to ask for advice, nor have I ever had a role model or a metal singer that could inspire me, because the way I sang was operatic.

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

I carry those years with Nightwishwith pride. I'm very proud of my work and what we did together. The music will always remain there in the books of history, and I don't feel at all bothered by the fact that Nightwish still gets brought up by fans in connection with my career. I'm very proud of my beginning in rock, and it gave me the tools to continue on my own, and also gave me the freedom to express myself and open my arms to fly, and to try other things.

"Maybe one day I'll forgive, but I will never forget." (About the way Nightwish fired her.)

I would be ready to rejoin Nightwish if all the members of the band and the management team were changed.

I'm a workaholic. My listeners, I think, they know me as a workaholic already. But, you know, work is my love.

I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.

I use my voice as a soloist is some songs. but as an instrument in others, creating pictures, moods and emotions.