Since today’s Mother’s Day I’m going to ask you what’s the best advice you mother gave you?

Aki: Behave!! (laughs) That’s a really good one!

Lauri: I think I’m still my moms’ boy. I still have quite close contact to my parents, even though we’re travelling, you know. It’s good to keep in touch with you family, I think it’s very important. Especially in this job it’s so crazy you know, you have fans, and all the fame and hype. And you know when I come home, I go to the same place where I was born and my mother still lives there. So everything is kind of like the same. So it’s a good for your inner balance.

What’s the most challenging aspect on being in the entertainment business?

Lauri: Well, I think it’s just to keep your own head together. So many times it feels like there’s a lof of people who want to give you advices how to handle things, especially on our new album it was important that we make the decisions as a band.

Aki: The bigger you get, the more you have to deal with things that don’t have anything to do with music. We love to play music and the main focus should be on the music, not our personal life or anything else.

What do you prefer: touring or recording in the studio?

Lauri: I like both! You know in the studio you can be a total nerd and try all the stuff on the computers and whatever. In the live situation we’re not able to do all that, so it’s nice to be more raw and simple. There’s also a different energy in the studio.

Aki: Travelling is great, beeing on tour and meeting people. We see different cultures. Both things are interesting and different. We enjoy everything.

Besides music, what’s your greatest passion in life?

Lauri: For me it would be architecture. I’ve been kind of self studying the last couple of years and designed my own house, which we just started to build.

Who was your biggest influence in becoming an artist?

Aki: My biggest influence was MTV and the bands in the 80ies. When I was a kid I had a lot of energy, and I kind of wanted to be a part of what they [the bands on MTV] were having and to have a band was my dream, so I’m living it now. Bands like Nirvana and Guns n Roses are still big for me.

Lauri: For me it’s kind of the same. My first real concert was Guns n Roses and Skid Row playing together. I was twelve years old and my sister took me to see the show. I was blown away of the energy.

Aki: My first CD was from Jimmy Hendrix. It felt like that’s the thing I want to be part of one day.

Let’s talk about today’s music. Adam Lambert is quite a big star in Finland. What do you think about his music?

Lauri: He’s hanging out with this Finnish guy. He’s a very good singer, one of the best male singers of the moment, but I don’t listen to his stuff only what I hear from the radio.

What’s your opinion on casting shows like American Idol in general?

Lauri: I don’t know how many [shows] we have going on right now. “Voice of Finland”, “Fame Factory”, “X Factor” etc. It’s nice to watch but I don’t know if it’s the right way to create stars. It’s such a short period of time, they have like a year to prove that they’re good or something.

I like things that have time to grow in a natural environment before they become something big.

Would you be interested to be one of the judges on a show like that?

Lauri: I’ve been one a couple of times. I hate it! But it was the only way to get to play at those shows ourselves. You know, I don’t like that. These people on the shows are very fragile, they all have their own feelings and ideas about what’s good and what’s not and if I say something it maybe has a bigger effect than I think it has. I might change the way they’ve been doing things, just because I said something stupid.

How long are you going to stay in Vienna?

Lauri: We’re leaving tonight. At first we’re playing the gig and then we’re going to have an after party. It’s gonna be here right after the concert.

How do you deal with Social Media?

Aki: It’s not easy, because we’re quite of an old band, but we do have a facebook page with almost 400.000 people there. Yesterday I had this idea that we should have a chat for like 30 minutes with our fans since we have fans all over the world, like Japan or Mexico. Sometimes I post some photos of concerts so that the fans can see what we’re doing.