You Don't Measure Life By Receiving Awards.

I Was Never Like, "collect, Collect," Like People Who Go To Auctions. I Never Spent A Serious Amount Of Time Because I Don't Have Any Time!

I Was Very Restless. I Really Wanted To Be A Part Of A Kind Of A Progressive Society. I Was Fed Up With These Communist Doctrines And You Were Hassled All The Time With Members Of The Party Committee Who Were Kgb, What You Have To Do, Where In The West You Can Go Or Not To Go.

I Cannot Belong To A Nonprofit Organization Because When You Receive Grants, You Have To Make Such Great Compromises With Your Artistic Plans.

You Don't Measure Life By Receiving Awards.

Soviet Regime In A Way Deprived Me From My Childhood In My Homeland, Because My Father Was In Military, And After The Yalta Agreement He Was Sent To Teach In Military Academy In Riga, And I Was Born Then.