You have to win something for people to think about you.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.