Lelya Ivanova

I wasn’t planning on going to the concert of Nino Katamadze, but somehow it just happened that way. Stereotypes tell us that she is not a beautiful person, don’t they? But look at how beautiful she is when she’s on the stage! I find it very beautiful. And her music is overwhelmingly beautiful. And even the people around her… She’s got a very funny drummer, he looks like a terrorist (smiles). They’re all very beautiful!

If a person has shown me that he’s different from others in some way during the first five-seven minutes of our conversation, he’s got my attention. But people like this are, naturally, becoming more and more rare.

I’m not at the very least a good housekeeper! I live alone, and there are always loads of some accounts piling in my mailbox, and I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do with them. I keep getting those letters all the time that say that I’ve got this or that debt! I’m so not good with money! The only disciplining factor in my life is my cat, because he needs me to feed him, to clean after him.

The only part of housework I enjoy is doing the dishes. Everything else I hate!

There’s a very clear connection: if a person looks well, it adds to his confidence. This has never worked with me though. Even the red color I dyed my hair in didn’t add much to my confidence, because confidence, above all, is the way you feel inside!

Crowds make me feel awkward. Especially when you come somewhere and see everybody in groups, companies. Makes you feel like they’re shutting you off.

Tattoo soon becomes somewhat the same as a mole. Nobody really regrets having a mole or a birthmark, do they? Well, that’s the way it happens with a tattoo.

Money is my nightmare. I’ve developed a very strong feeling of dislike towards this phenomenon. What I dislike about it, is that I’m so not good with it. I’m always in debt.

I wouldn’t call myself a gourmet, but I do enjoy food a lot! There’s nothing worse than a hungry Lelya.

I don’t like cooking, because I had to learn to do it so early. I used to love cooking before the age of fourteen, when I did it once a month, and everyone would be impressed. But when I started cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a regular basis, my passion for culinary faded away.

Smoking is absolutely conscious self-destruction. I know it, and I wouldn’t want my kids to smoke! As for me, well, the day will come when I quit.

I know what hatred is, and I know what envy is. Both feelings are extremely destructive. I’ve been in the situation where envy made me do irrational, absurd things. It feels so bad when your dreams come true for someone else. That’s exactly what causes envy.

Friendship is an energy exchange that always goes both ways. Like shamanism of some sort. I can’t find a better explanation!

I love driving, and, boy, do I suffer from it! I’m quite an aggressive driver. And I’ve got a car with mechanical transmission. I used to have automatic before, for about a year and a half, probably. I had this ancient SUV with such a useless automatic transmission, that I moved to a mechanical one.

I’m irritated by people’s rudeness, both on the road and in everyday life. I’m irritated by the Cayenne’s. I was driving just now, and he squeezed in, right in front of me, and didn’t even indicate!

I fall in love very easily. Extremely easily. Like, yesterday, I think I fell in love with … a gay guy! He’s so wonderful! We spent the whole evening talking about all sorts of things! It was so great and so much fun!