Quotes from Tarja Turunen

I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.

Johnny Andrews can make me fly with his ideas for new songs. It has always been a pure pleasure to write with him.

Myself, I would love to record and film every performance I make, as each concert is special and unique.

Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

I don't write duets - I write songs for my voice.

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