I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?