My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.