I read Russian literature a lot.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.