While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.