I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.