NIGHTWISH - „I’m running away from the stupidity of people and the stupidity of myself”

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At the ARTmania Festival I was able to talk to the composer of NIGHTWISH majestic orchestrations. Tuomas Holopainen could not linger too long as time allowed for the interviews expired softly. My list of questions was reduced considerably when the tour manager granted us no more than five minutes extra. Here's how we spent them:

 
Hello, Tuomas and welcome back to România!
„Hello!”
 
I know that you’re a big fan of Stephen King’s novels. What else do you like to read?
„I read a lot of fantasy; Tolkien, Robin Hobb, David Eddings… And I love Agatha Christie too… I like fact books like history stuff, fairytales books, Donald Duck… Everything which is not too real, so to say…”
 
I know that you have an isolated house, in a forest, somewhere. Are you hiding?
„I do my best…”
 
Can we say that you are running away from something? If so, from whom or what?
„From society…”
 
OK, can you be more specific?
„I’m running away from the stupidity of people and the stupidity of myself. That’s basically it…”
 
One of your dreams is that you’ll compose a soundtrack for a movie. What kind of soundtrack it will be? Something like The Fountain or something like Trent Reznor (NIN) did with Natural Born Killers?
„I think the most important thing is not the genre but that the movie will inspire me in a way. I wouldn’t mind to do a soundtrack for a nature documentary show on Discovery Channel or something…, or a fantasy movie like the upcoming Hobbit, for example. It would be a dream come true. A drama or something… I think the only thing I wouldn’t go into is comedy, because that’s the hardest form of art and I could never ever think that I would be able to do a soundtrack for a comedy…”

 
Do you feel a sense of lost when you lose fans due to your music evolution?
„It’s just a natural thing. No matter what you’ll do, you’ll always lose but I also think that you gain. The most important thing is to be sincere. Try to be innocent and follow your heart. I think this is what we’ve done with the change of the singer and with the new album and I think that’s why the album has become the biggest succes so far…”
 
What’s your opinion about silence?
„Silence… Hm… I absolutely adore silence. The most beautiful music comes from silence. People of today are in such a hurry… They need that one day to stop from running and just be quiet, do nothing… Let’s say for a day or for a week… They have this mental hangover that «I should be doing something! I need to work»”
 
A syndrome of the modern world?
„Yes, of modern world. People should just come down and accept to do nothing, in complete silence. People would change then…”
 
Thank you, Tuomas…
„Thank you! Nice stuff…”