Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.