Top 44 Saara Aalto Quotes

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

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

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

When I came here, I was a little bit different and in Finland people didn’t really accept me, and then I came here and I saw Honey G doing so well and I thought ‘British people are so great, they accept Honey G as she is, so maybe they’ll accept me as well.’

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The staging for ‘Monsters’ is all about me getting free. In the beginning I’m like tied, in a dark place… until I am scared no more, and I’m taking the lead of my life, I’m being the queen of my life, I’m ruling the world! In the end I’m taking a risk, but I’m taking the leap of faith.

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

I think for me ‘X Factor’ was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Posh was my favorite Spice Girl but she didn’t have that many lines to sing.

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

There should be more LGBT people on TV.

I have my values and I always stick with them.

People loved me on ‘X Factor’ when I did ‘Chandelier’ and ‘Winner Takes It All’ and all these big numbers.

I love Honey G, Honey G is great. I think she’s not a singer, she’s a rapper.

Feelings don’t lie.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn’t naturally want to support someone from another country.

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.

The world is full of negativity and scary news, terrible things happening. And then we have Eurovision, which is like the whole of Europe and the whole world just comes together, and celebrates love and everybody supports everybody.

I was a judge on Finnish ‘X Factor.’ My girl won. So basically I’m quite successful as a judge.

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

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 was honored I was signed to Sony. But later I felt like they weren’t the right team.

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

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

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.

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

It’s like going back to ‘X Factor’ but it’s even bigger because Eurovision has so many more viewers.

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 describe my own music as epic love pop.

The atmosphere in Britain is so supportive. People are so friendly and positive. I feel accepted here.

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.