We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.