What was it like working with Tarja Turunen?
Well, working with Tarja at first was really easy; she was at least at the time, she was down to earth like a Finnish country girl and we were Finnish country boys. So, pretty easy. I still think that basically what led to the breakup was she listened to some really bad advice from her husband and ended up thinking she as herself is way too valuable compared to us. And they can dictate the rules however; it wasnt that way. We didnt put up with it and thats it. What was that process like in replacing Tarja? Did you think it was going to be an impossible task or did you feel secure that you could find someone pretty easily? It was really funny because I think we got over 2,000 demoes and we basically listened to all of them. I think I listened to something like 700 myself. What I found out was there were like a lot of potential singers, a lot of good singers, but people who were still wet behind the ears. So, in order to grow into the band they would need like one or two albums and proba
