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Interview with Tarja, after nightwish split up, this is not the press conference.
Translation by Orion
Q In public you were the face of the band. Could you have believed yourself that you're gonna get fired?
A Yes, of course. It's been one of the options in the middle of the bad feeling and problems. I had already made a decision in last December, when I didn't see any light in the end of the tunnel, and I had told the band that the next album is going to be the last one for me. And of course it was one of the options, and personally I have understood and accepted that I got fired, but the way it happened makes me very sad. Not bitter, but disappointed and very sad, because it shocked my life and life of people close to me. And the fuss was so huge and unpredictible that I wasn't prepared for that, and no one should be prepared for such thing. And I think I never could've done that to them. Why could they do it for me is the question I'm gonna ask myself for the rest of my life.
Q After the announcement you put your own answer to your own website where you told how sad and disappointed you are about the decision the boys had made. In their announcement, they accused you being greedy and diva, but you didn't deny any of those things. Was there some truth behind them?
A I didn't deny them in a way that there were many other things that I didn't deny, or aswer the accusations with accusations. I've never been such a person that I would talk about these things in the media, because the things inside the band are personal. And the accusations in the letter were very hard, and when I read it myself, it was such a shock, and I was very sad that people had seen these things in that light. Shortly it's very difficult to say that "I wasn't greedy" or "I wasn't a diva" it's hard to say what things we went throug in the whole 9 year carreer. So I'm very sad that they've seen me as a diva, and in this case "diva" is a bad thing, and that I didn't care about anything because I was the face of the band. It wasn't like that at all. I didn't feel like being a diva. If I went on stage wearing all those fancy clothes, I'm not denying that didn't have any diva, but I walk off the stage as a normal Tarja.
It's really sad. And in a band like this, and as big as this, money is a thing that you can't just pass by. I've always been a person who wants to know how the things are going. And if I see something wrong somewhere, I wanna do something about it, and even more if I see it twice. And in the third time I start to wonder. ****And when I wanted to know why this and that happens, I didn't get any answers from the band, they just exepted it and now they're answering me like this, and it comes as a shock. [****Translator's note I have no idea what she is saying here, she has a strange way of expressing herself]
Q Alright. What is it like to start your classical career now, when you're gonna be rememberes as Nightwish's ex singer?
A Well I just wanna say that I don't see myself as a professional classical singer. I had a long career in Nightwish, 9 years, during which I have taken and given singing lessons whenever I had time, and tried to train my voice, because it's vital for my voice, and the voice of Nightwish. And important mentally as well, I have to take care of my voice. And talking about the future concerts, I'm gonna be there as myself as a singer of all these years, and I'm gonna carry all the years with Nightwish with me for the rest of my life, and I do it proudly. Because I can be proud of the fact that I was able to do all that, as a singer like I am. So I'm proud and thankful that I got this opportunity. No it's over, and the life goes on, and me as a singer, has to start it again from another perspective. I will make concerts and my own music, and now the life floats again, and continues.
Q This has been a big thing in the media. What if it happened that Nightwish members would kindly ask you back?
Translation by Orion
Q In public you were the face of the band. Could you have believed yourself that you're gonna get fired?
A Yes, of course. It's been one of the options in the middle of the bad feeling and problems. I had already made a decision in last December, when I didn't see any light in the end of the tunnel, and I had told the band that the next album is going to be the last one for me. And of course it was one of the options, and personally I have understood and accepted that I got fired, but the way it happened makes me very sad. Not bitter, but disappointed and very sad, because it shocked my life and life of people close to me. And the fuss was so huge and unpredictible that I wasn't prepared for that, and no one should be prepared for such thing. And I think I never could've done that to them. Why could they do it for me is the question I'm gonna ask myself for the rest of my life.
Q After the announcement you put your own answer to your own website where you told how sad and disappointed you are about the decision the boys had made. In their announcement, they accused you being greedy and diva, but you didn't deny any of those things. Was there some truth behind them?
A I didn't deny them in a way that there were many other things that I didn't deny, or aswer the accusations with accusations. I've never been such a person that I would talk about these things in the media, because the things inside the band are personal. And the accusations in the letter were very hard, and when I read it myself, it was such a shock, and I was very sad that people had seen these things in that light. Shortly it's very difficult to say that "I wasn't greedy" or "I wasn't a diva" it's hard to say what things we went throug in the whole 9 year carreer. So I'm very sad that they've seen me as a diva, and in this case "diva" is a bad thing, and that I didn't care about anything because I was the face of the band. It wasn't like that at all. I didn't feel like being a diva. If I went on stage wearing all those fancy clothes, I'm not denying that didn't have any diva, but I walk off the stage as a normal Tarja.
It's really sad. And in a band like this, and as big as this, money is a thing that you can't just pass by. I've always been a person who wants to know how the things are going. And if I see something wrong somewhere, I wanna do something about it, and even more if I see it twice. And in the third time I start to wonder. ****And when I wanted to know why this and that happens, I didn't get any answers from the band, they just exepted it and now they're answering me like this, and it comes as a shock. [****Translator's note I have no idea what she is saying here, she has a strange way of expressing herself]
Q Alright. What is it like to start your classical career now, when you're gonna be rememberes as Nightwish's ex singer?
A Well I just wanna say that I don't see myself as a professional classical singer. I had a long career in Nightwish, 9 years, during which I have taken and given singing lessons whenever I had time, and tried to train my voice, because it's vital for my voice, and the voice of Nightwish. And important mentally as well, I have to take care of my voice. And talking about the future concerts, I'm gonna be there as myself as a singer of all these years, and I'm gonna carry all the years with Nightwish with me for the rest of my life, and I do it proudly. Because I can be proud of the fact that I was able to do all that, as a singer like I am. So I'm proud and thankful that I got this opportunity. No it's over, and the life goes on, and me as a singer, has to start it again from another perspective. I will make concerts and my own music, and now the life floats again, and continues.
Q This has been a big thing in the media. What if it happened that Nightwish members would kindly ask you back?