We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

People dance at any age.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.