Hey Elina, how are you?

{laughs) oh no, not at all, I'm fine!

I'm glad you like it, thank you very much!

Well yeah, we met from the tour we had together, everybody had a really great time, it was a great tour generally and very good for PAIN also and we thought hey, why don't we do something together? When I was writing the song Follow Me I had the vocals of Anette in my mind in order that they will fit the song, but I wanted her to do some more heavy, angry vocals, not to use the same style she has in NIGHTWISH and I think her vocals fit perfectly. The same thing with Feed Us were I had already written the song and my vocals were there, but I wanted to try to have her there as well and I didn't know how it would sound, and the result was great there as well. I mean, it is the first time that I listen to my songs with female vocals too and the whole result turned up great!

Oh, no, I mean it's been so many years and right now I feel I'm making a new start, I'm just beginning! I'm now more excited than ever and the tour with NIGHTWISH help a lot with that

Well yes, there are songs that I like to listen to and there are artists also that I really admire and it's a challenge for me to remix one of their songs. I know that people would prefer to see me remix an IRON MAIDEN song let's say but it was way more challenging for me to remix a song of BJORK for example were it felt very risky and I had no idea if it would turned out good

(laughs)thank you!

You know, I have a strong appreciation for all the fans we have, they follow us in our very step and they are there to buy our albums and show up in our live shows.

The whole thing about free downloading I don't feel it has affected me, I still sell the same 'cause we have die hard fans out there that don't want that shitty quality from the internet and they want to buy our original album that has everything than a blank cd-r and that pleases them more

I did that to satisfy all our fans who didn't like the original. I mean, it was a controversial album that some people that some people said they didn't like and I'm a very open minded person and I did that in order to please them. All the others that like the original don't bother with this one! (laughs)

For a couple of minutes actually...

Yeah, that was related to all that stress I had back then, it was also what made me write the homonymous song. It was lets say a very weird experience that I try to live in the past and not think about it.

Well, yeah, it's true!

(laughs)well, you know it's not that big, it has very few houses, I began at first by renting the house I was living, then I bought the studio, then I bought the house I used to rent so they they told me, why don't you buy the whole shit and get it over with? So I did! (laughs)

Hope we come back soon there to play for you guys and hopefully there will be more people to see us next time

Yeah, that's what I heard also. But in anyway, it doesn't matter because we had a great time, great mood, it was like a private party!

You too and see you soon in our next show!