I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

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

When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something - and I am for life.