I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.