Seura Magazine, Finland, October 2007





"I'm proud of Nightwish"

Tarja Turunen who was fired from the band hopes that the guys from Nightwish will send her their new album.

The 7 deadly sins

Greed

Greed is a really ugly word. First it makes me think of people who only think about themselves. Greedness is a state where people feel bad because they want something from someone else and can't be happy with what they've got.
I don't consider myself really greedy. I have learned to daily thank for what I've got. I often stop and think how lucky I am: I have love and work in my life.
I could be greedy for more alone time from my husband Marcelo. I'd take him jogging with me, that would be a big thing for me. We don't jog together. I run and Marcelo plays football. We do go divíng together.
Also watching movies is a joined hobby of ours. We're also totally hooked on the tv-series Prison Break. It's hard with our suitcase life to keep up with the plot so we watch the episodes from a dvd-box.

Envy

I was in elementery school the only girl in our class. I was envious for the girls in other classes, they had each other and their own girl things. I spend already at that point more time with boys than girls.
For the first five years I was bullied in school. That was extremely terrible: I lived in constant fear. I was often so nervous that my present stomach problems date back from there. I did all the group works alone. Luckily I had a harmonious family which gave me a lot of strenght.
On the sixth grade the situation got better when the older girls who were bullying me switched school. My self-esteem grew and I started to make new friends. However it took many years before I was able to openly speak about the bullying.
Nowadays I envy people who have time to calm down, rest, spend time at home and enjoy their free time. Jealousy is a state where you easily do a lot of bad things. You have to try to get rid of it.

Pride

Good pride is knowing you've accomplished something but don't egotisticly brag about it. It's also good to be able to be proud of someone else's achievements. I value when someone comes to say to me they're proud of what I do. That happened öast time with a Finnish girl in London a few days ago.
Pride shouldn't become an absolute value. If that happens you don't usually see it yourself but others do. Pride goes before a fall. I'm very proud of having a secure circle of friends around me. They accept me as I am. I'm also proud of being thirty and having enjoyed culture and world as much as I have. My view of life has widened a lot thanks to that. I'm not so reserved anymore but I'm able to think about things from many sides.
I'm really proud about Nightwish and its music. I've heard only one song from the new album, the Eva- single. Hopefully the guys will send me the new album.

Wrath/ Anger/ Hate

Stupid people make me angry. Also pedantry and stubbornness irritate me: clinging onto some small thing and not being able to adapt to anything. Hate is a really harsh word and it's hard to say that you really hate something. But I hate unhygienic places! I've seen a lot around the world. Sometimes I've had to go through with my eyes closed since I simply haven't been able to look.
I've gotten the enthusiasm for cleaning from my mother. My home isn't always spotless, because a musicians everyday life creates a certain chaos: mics and suitcases everywhere. But I like to keep it clean enough that I can invite people in if they should drop by. Me and Marcelo are badly allergic to dust so we are forced to clean occasionally.
I also hate waiting at the airport. I always like to be on time, so I go there early and need to wait. Planes that are late and changing planes is irritating. The last time I was annoyed when I was coming from Los Angeles through Amsterdam to Helsinki.
There was some mix up in the resesvations - eventhough I had the tickets they couldn't find me in the air line's register. I had to wait for the next flight to Helsinki over seven hours. Luckily I had that much time so I managed to go shopping to the centrum of Amsterdam.
Sometimes also my performance clothes haven't arrived to the destination. Once we were going to Mexico for a gig, but my suitcase of clothes didn't arrive. I had to wait for it for two weeks. It was hard to try to find stage clothes from stores because I usually have everything made.
The idea of hating a person seems quite wild. I believe in forgivance in the smallest things. In my relationship I've learned to talk things through. That way you'll avoid arguments.

Gluttony/ overeating

I love salmiac! I don't eat junk food, chocolate nor much anything else sweet but salmiac is my weakness. The worst thing is that I know how I'll feel after eating it, but I have to have it at least once a month. I suffer from the yeast of the bowels (couldn't find the proper translation) so eating salmiac causes terrible pains, cramps and flatulence.. Luckily I can't eat a whole bag at once. My schedule is so tight that I don't have the time to gormandize more than about once a month.
My life is so hectic that I have to find the small positive things so I won't get tired of the constant twirling. I for example get loads of energy from meeting new people. I've learned to appreciate the fact that my husband handels our family's everyday things. It also makes me happy to be able to make my friends happy for instance with one simple phone call - and they don't demand more than that.
All of my things are really well now. I haven't had the time to take care of my fittness though. I've had occasional boosts in getting in to shape. Fittness is vital to a singer: when your body gets tired your voice doesn't work either.

Lust/ debauchery/ dissipation/ lechery

At first I think of sex. It's a very beautiful thing. In my life sex is connected to a person I truly love. It can be made lecherous and dirty with negligence, not taking care of yourself or thinking about others. Sex is lecherous also when it's turned only into a performance.
Lecherous first makes me think of a mawkish and disgusting guy. The one who is so self-assured and presumptuous that makes other people sick.

Sloth/ laziness

It's wonderful to be lazy sometimes! I usually leave things to the last minute and have to then run in a hurry. Being lazy gives you strenght and thinking of nothing is occasionally a good thing.
Laziness is a bad thing when it leads to carelessness or hurting other people. If you sincerely trust someone else's word that they'll do what is agreed and then they're too lazy to do it that's irritating. That can screw up the next six months.
I sometimes spend lazy days at home. Rent a few movies, buy a bag of salmiac and enjoy being lazy. Then socks can be left on the floor with a good conscience!

Scans and translation by Afrodite