A biography for Tarja Turunenhasn’t been written yet.
“Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.”
“You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.”
“Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.”
“It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.”
“I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.”
“Sometimes a song can be born in few minutes, if the feeling is right, some other times it can take days.”
“I love photography myself.”
“I've been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.”
“I'm happy, I'm healthy, I am not looking backwards - I'm only heading towards some kind of dreams of mine and living my dreams.”
“With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.”
“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.”
“I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.”
“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.”
“In the beginning of my career I had to deal with the fact that since I was the only woman in the band, the singer and the face of the band, I obviously got the most of the attention of the public everywhere I went.”
“Music really makes you keep your feet on the ground. People can really see if you're honest. That is the truth, they really can see through you.”
“For me, it is incredible to hear singers in the metal scene telling me I had been their inspiration.”
“I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.”
“My fans have been the power behind me and beside me, they have been holding me awake, and so they are my winter storm.”
“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 am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much 'The Brightest Void' and 'The Shadow Self' are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.”