“I'm of course jumping right in with the attitude that I can win the Eu...” — Saara Aalto Quote

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 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.'

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

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

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

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

Especially watching him struggle, cause I was with him when he was struggling - changed his name to The Rock, all of a sudden he has the attitude a little bit, he started getting the mic, started cutting promos. His character just developed.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.