Tarja Turunen Quotes

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I've been writing a lot of songs about my personal life and identity. That can be a real healing process.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.