Top 50 Saara Aalto Quotes

I grew up in Finland, so it’s cold in Finland, we have ice rinks outdoors.

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

There should be more LGBT people on TV.

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

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.’

‘The X Factor’ has brought so much joy to so many people.

I describe my own music as epic love pop.

I want to do a musical. I want to write a book. I have all these ideas and I can’t get away from them.

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

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’m doing ‘Dancing on Ice’ and I’m just exhausted.

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

Compared to professional dancers, I’m obviously not professional but I do love to dance so much.

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

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.

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

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

I have my values and I always stick with them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We want it to be sunny. Something small and intimate because my work is so public. That would be good for me, but my partner wants to have a big wedding.

I think you should have some more lesbian women out here on the British TV!

I was on ‘X Factor’ the day after the Brexit vote. People voted for Brexit. But the public also voted for me, they wanted me to be there and part of the music industry. I haven’t felt any bad effects.

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

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

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

I love that music will bring people together, because the world is full of negativity.

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.’

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

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.

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.

I’ve always had a big bum.

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

I can be a bit serious because I’m always focused on my work, but when Meri’s around I feel so relaxed. My body and soul are like, ‘Ah, OK, everything is fine.’ I know I am meant to be with her. It feels right.

It’s funny, the only song I didn’t want to do originally was ‘Oh So Quiet.’ And it was the best performance and changed the game for me.

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

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

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

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.

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

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. – I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.