Saara Aalto Quotes

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn’t matter where I come from.

I’m quite tired, so when ‘Dancing On Ice’ is over I need a good holiday.

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There’s nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.

There were many years when I didn’t even know if I wanted to get married. I don’t know if I believe in that institution, really.

But when you grow, you get older and I realized that I would prefer being with a girl.

Feelings don’t lie.

It changed my life, but the best gift I have ever been given was the acceptance of the British public.

I’m of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eurovision Song Contest – or at least finish in second place!

I will never risk my wellbeing for my career and it’s always worked out well for me and led me to the right places.

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

This song is by Bjork called ‘Oh So Quiet‘ and it’s really different. I’ll be screaming and just having fun on stage. It’s really, really different but I’m very excited to do that number.

I came second in ‘The Voice of Finland’ in 2012 and my career really exploded at home. I had 300 gigs a year.

I’m now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given to me. Oh my God, it’s just insane.

I think Sia is a pretty good reference for me because her way of ‘singing and the way she composes the melodies and writes the lyrics is very similar to what I’ve always done.

That’s been my goal since I was a child and saw the Spice Girls on TV: I was like, I want to wear those fancy outfits and sing my heart out on a big stage.

In music, you can’t really tell who‘s better.

I think Honey G is a brand, she’s an inspiration for me at least.

I was scared to be myself because I love to be flamboyant.

It’s incredible how my life has so many things happening at the same time.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

All the experience from ‘X Factor‘ U.K. I can use that – I know what I’m doing on a big stage.

They haven‘t had ‘The X Factor’ in Finland for ten years. But because I was on it and it was such a hit, they decided to bring it back and have me as a judge.

I was always the flamboyant one and the one who wanted to be really bubbly and wanted to perform in a big way, but it’s not very typical in Finland.

I don’t want to sing about going to a party with friends, I want to sing meaningful songs that can inspire people and I think Sia’s songs are really deep. ‘Chandelier’ is about young girls who think they have to please others to be loved and that really touched me.

I think we should have Eurovision every week. It’s a really beautiful event, and it’s very deep.

When I release my music I will text Sharon Osborne and ask her about my songs.

It has always been my dream to do Eurovision since I was a child.

Everyone always told me I had a J-Lo bum. Since I was 15 it’s always been like that.

I was in ‘The Voice of Finland’ in 2012 and my girlfriend – fiancee now – watched the show, liked me a lot and sent me a fan message through Facebook. She wrote, ‘I have never, ever sent a message like this to anybody, but I just had this intuition that I have to send this to you.’

When you train every day your body starts to change. The biggest thing I have noticed is my bum.

I think it’s mainly the language barrier and the cultural barrier, but of course also my songs, they have been very serious and melancholic, and so maybe people need to see more of my bubbly side and my personality.

It’s very Finnish to think you can’t make it outside Finland.

It’s always been my dream to sing for Simon Cowell, plus I wanted to get out of Finland.

I think it’s a crime to prevent love from happening.

I was thinking, could I be the sixth Spice Girl?

So many months in the ‘X Factor’ house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.

I describe my own music as epic love pop.

Hitting the road with Steps is going to be so much fun.

I’ve always had a big bum.

Finland is dark and grey, but I’m a very happy, colorful, positive person – and I feel like Eurovision is all about that.

There are not actually many people in Finland who are openly gay together, let alone two women.

In Finland and the U.K. you can’t predict the weather.

When I met the people at Warner, they were very excited about my style and making me into this big theatrical artist.

I don’t want to be difficult personally. On stage is the right place for a diva.

I talked with labels and they wouldn’t help with my international career. They said, ‘Saara, if you’re in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.’ That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I’d go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.