Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don't see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.
— Floor Jansen
I'm not the kind of singer that's always super, super careful.
Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.
Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.
I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.
Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you come and join us now?' Yeah, that turned everything upside down.
I had the idea to spend the year off in 2008 and start writing a rock album. I wanted to do something else other than melodic metal after more than ten years of After Forever. I thought it would be nice to sidestep into rock.
Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.
Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I'm not the only Nightwish member who has that. That's a luxury we can take, and we will.
Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.
There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.'
Actually, I consider both Nightwish and Revamp equal.
I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.
If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it.
A good glass of red wine or maybe a little bit too much every now and then is just fine. Heavy boozing, not so much, because you don't recover enough from it.
Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.
It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.
I really like to meet people, but only when I have the energy for it.
Nightwish is my band, and so is Revamp. They both get my 100 percent, which is why I also cannot do them both at the same time. They're both my babies.
I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.
I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.
