Greek singer Helena Paparizou may acknowledge that in a contest one can win or lose but she has promised herself and her people she will do her utmost at this May's Eurovision Song Festival in the Ukraine.
Her song - You Are My Number One - garnered more than 60 per cent of the votes in the Greek contest for the Eurovision Song Festival.
"It is traditional but not in the way many people expect a Greek song to be. We do not use the bouzouki but the Crete lyre. And while traditional, it also has a modern streak," she explains animatedly.
Like Malta's own Chiara, the Greek singer has already competed in the Eurovision Song Festival. She represented Greece in 2001 as part of the group Antique, which she and her childhood friend Nikos Panagiotidis formed a couple of years before. The song - I Would Die For You - brought Greece its first ever third placing in the festival.
Things are different this time around and she will sing on her own after deciding to go solo 18 months ago.
However, she is not apprehensive. Maybe, she says, it is because she has grown up - she was only 19 when Antique took part in the Eurovision Song Festival and feels "more ready for stuff" now at the age of 23.
"If you had asked me about all this 18 months ago I would not have been too sure. It was very hard for me in the beginning because I really missed Nikos. When I went on stage, I was always expecting him to be by my side," she said.
But today the young singer is confident and no longer harbours any fears. "I have done this my whole life and will struggle for my country, because I love Greece."
Although she is Greek, the singer was born and bred in Sweden. Although she moved to Greece when she started her solo career, she still has a base, and a following, in Scandinavia and in May is expected to release an album there.
The young singer has some insightful beliefs despite being just 23 years old. "None of the participants has anything to fear. We all love music. Anyone who participates in the Eurovision Song Festival loves one's country, loves music and everybody does the job. But somebody has to come first, somebody has to come second and somebody has to come last. So if you're not ready to participate in such a contest, then you shouldn't go," she says.
Since Antique had earned such a good placing, people have high expectations now and she is promising to do her best.
The singer is tight lipped about what Greece is preparing for the final night in the Ukraine, although she says discussions are in full swing with her choreographer and her team are all working on the final night.
"I don't want to tell too much. The dancers are not even accompanying me on the promotional tour. I want to keep everything secret so it will be a big surprise on the night."
She left Malta yesterday evening after a whirlwind two-day promotional tour to the island which, she said, she loved.
"Malta is beautiful. I went sightseeing and I loved it. The people are very proud of their heritage and I like seeing people being proud of who they are. I hope all the other 16 or 17 countries I am going to visit are like Malta.
"It was my first time here but it surely will not be the last," she promised herself.