Nightwish Vocalist Answers Fans Questions

NIGHTWISH vocalist Anette Olzon has answered a series of questions from fans on the band's official website. Here is a portion of the Q&A:

Question: Why are you releasing the album so late? It seems to be finished already (if it isn't feel free to tell me otherwise.

Anette Olzon: "This has to do with the fact that if we would release the album already before the summer, we would have to do some festivals as my first gigs and the guys felt that it will be easier for me to do a tour in US as the first gigs."

Question: What do you feel when you are singing?

Anette Olzon: "Singing is and has always for me been a way of handling all the feelings I have inside. I sing when I am sad, happy, angry, bitter, naughty etc... so many feelings come to me when I sing music I love and I cry easily when I sing something emotional."

Question: I would like to know if you intend to be part of the creative process of the next album(s)? Would you to do it and do you think Tuomas (Holopainen) will be open to this idea?

Anette Olzon: "Tuomas will always write the lyrics, they are his 'babies' so to say. But the music and melodies are something all of us can contribute with, so it's not impossible that I will contribute with something in the future, if I have some nice ideas that the other guys also like."

Question: What do you think about Tuomas' lyrics? Do you understand the meaning?

Anette Olzon: "I have been singing so many different genres before, but I have never been singing songs with so special and emotional lyrics. The meaning of his words is not always on the surface, which makes it so much more interesting to try to interpret and to understand them. I feel that I understand his words very well but of course only Tuomas himself know the very true meaning behind his words."