I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Because I practice often with my children at home.

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

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

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.