Tarja Turunen Quotes

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.'

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

A good sign for me, that I'm a good spot mentally, is when I'm super prolific. And I just wake up every day excited to make or replicate music in some way. That's really nice.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.