I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.