When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

One thing I learned from his holiness the Dali Lama is the importance of humor.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others.