I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

He who shoots first laughs last.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.