The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.
In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.
Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.
There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler
My problem is that I'm negative - I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That's normal here.
Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.
