Tarja Turunen Quotes

We do write our own music.

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Singing's not my real passion.

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I write my music.

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.

I really, really like writing songs.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.