It's good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else. Floor Jansen More Quotes by Floor Jansen More Quotes From Floor Jansen I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it. Floor Jansen my-life tired sick life 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. Floor Jansen phone-call phone you people 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. Floor Jansen good you red wine When a pregnancy begins, those cells begin their mitosis, and during the first three months, everything from limbs to organs to the brain and neurological system is being developed, and I never realized that would consume so much energy: it drains every bit of energy you have, and your hormonal status is changed dramatically! Floor Jansen never you energy brain I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band. Floor Jansen need feel always band I really like to meet people, but only when I have the energy for it. Floor Jansen meet like energy people For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music. Floor Jansen i-am me music home If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it. Floor Jansen tell you happy way 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. Floor Jansen more just women guitar I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself. Floor Jansen better you language country Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can't do everything at the same time, and you can't do some things if you can't spend the time. Floor Jansen everything you time life Not everyone is as equally as adventurous as me. I get that. Floor Jansen everyone get me adventurous I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that. Floor Jansen poker face control over 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. Floor Jansen thought start nice writing I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to. Floor Jansen listen rock something jazz 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. Floor Jansen why cannot band time Actually, I consider both Nightwish and Revamp equal. Floor Jansen actually consider both equal I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect. Floor Jansen best things always perfect There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.' Floor Jansen metal genre seems sometimes 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. Floor Jansen style singing girl important
