Turunen: "I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people."

Turunen: "My fans have been the power behind me and beside me, they have been holding me awake, and so they are my winter storm."

Turunen: "It's incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work."

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

Turunen: "I think that when I am making music, if I can be really happy with it and get my message across, then that is the most important thing."

Turunen: "Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness."

Turunen: "If you think of people, the majority of us, we can't do what we really love. I am really grateful that I can work with my dream."

Turunen: "If I'm singing powerfully, I need something powerful behind me so that I don't feel like I am left alone."

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

Turunen: "After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride."

Turunen: "I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it."

Turunen: "When I'm doing something, I do it with my heart. And so if I feel good about something, I'm going for it; one hundred percent I'm on it."

Turunen: "I was kind of, I would say, even obsessed with music. I wanted to start learning piano when I was six years old, and after that, my parents were very supportive and they took me to several kinds of music lessons. So music filled all my childhood."

Turunen: "I've always been very respected as a female singer in metal, or in general as a female singer."

Turunen: "Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering."

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

Turunen: "I think it's really important to be humble for the music because there is always someone better than you, there is always something new for you to learn for music and you can't be the best in the world. It makes you work very hard."

Turunen: "You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is."

Turunen: "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."

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

Turunen: "I have to be cautious about how I dress, what I eat/drink and when I sleep so that my voice can shine as its best in each of my shows."

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

Turunen: "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."

Turunen: "I wake up usually quite late, just in time for the lunch, especially if I sleep badly during the night."