Quotes

You arrive at Sheremetyevo, have a smoke, have an espresso, and then board the plane. There are smoking restrictions in Russia, and we can't afford to open such a room everywhere, but where we can, we build them, and people are grateful because they don't have to go around the corner to smoke. I am a non-smoker myself, but I do not judge those who have this habit, since it is impossible to eradicate something that has taken root since the time of Peter the Great.

As a child, a person has no freedom, he is constantly told what to do, where you can go and where you can't, put on a hat, take off a hat, find a hat... My parents were not tyrants (my mother was a model, my father was a jazz musician, what kind of tyranny is that?), nevertheless, I only felt freedom at 18.

I was always a bad student. I was such an outcast in class. Throughout school, especially at music school, I was an absolute zero. I couldn't study well because I'd wake up at night: Dad would come home drunk, we'd fight, we'd get into fistfights.

To be honest, I only recently fell in love with Odessa. As a child, it seemed like pure hell to me, because I was brought there in August, when none of the other children were around, and I had no one to talk to - just my mother, grandparents. I don't even have any childhood friends in Odessa.

I really wanted to be an actor. And on the way to the theater institute, I met a girl, Nastya Barteneva, and she said, 'Where are you going?' I said, 'Yeah, I want to find out what exams there are, try to pass them'. She said, 'Are you stupid? What exams? What, you're not going to sing?' I said, 'No, I want to be an actor'. 'You need to sing! Go to the conservatory!'

I started boxing once a week. This sport makes people kinder: one punch to the head and I come home a nice person, with something to talk about.

What are my athletic achievements? I mean, can I hang on a horizontal bar for half an hour? Well, if there's a rabid dog at the bottom, I think I could hang there even longer. My biggest achievement, though, is that girls like me. How does my wife cope with that? That's her achievement!

Even if something goes wrong, it's still better to take a risk and lose than not to take a risk and then regret it at 60-70 years old.

I can't say I'm the perfect husband and dad - I'm often busy. But I have one big advantage: I don't drink. I've never had alcohol and I don't know what vodka tastes like, because my dad was a heavy drinker at one point. Growing up, I saw my mother suffer from it, and I formulated this credo for myself: Alcohol is the enemy of our family, and I don't mess with enemies.

I'm annoyed by men who buy women and surprised by women who sell themselves.

My secret to success is my work. I admire the men and women who, after a hard day's work, still crawl to the gym, and then manage to cook and do homework with their children - they are true heroes. They deserve a monument. That's for sure.

It took me a long time to achieve this result and a long time to wait for people to like me. I always wanted to be like Sylvester Stallone. And if someone told me I looked like him, I thought I'd achieved my goal.

It was thanks to my father that I realized that sport is good. Whenever a binge was coming to an end, my father would go to the store to buy a new tracksuit and work out until he was sweating, flushing toxins from his blood. So I spend several hours every day at the gym, working out on the machines. And recently, I've also taken up boxing, it keeps me in shape all the time.

You should only marry the woman you truly love. Reciprocal feelings cannot be bought with money and gifts

I wanted romance and feelings. It's very sad when you go to bed with a woman and the first thing you do is pick up a newspaper or a book.