No, I did not lose it, because I'm thinking about who I am on this earth. But I am pleased to realize that literally in June-July I was only an athlete, and right now a book has been published, I continue to star in the series, several songs with Vika Daineko were recorded, and a video was shot.
All such figure skating is not a lifting of the bar, but a kind of sport that is closely connected with the ballet, with music. We make small plays, so further development is also in the creative direction. Television, cinema, music - all this is pleasant for me, convenient. But the most important thing is to remain a man ...
I do not know what they write about me. I do not really go into details and do not particularly challenge what is written in the newspapers, because they do what they want. So you can turn all the words and write as you want ... I'm calm about it.
You wrote and published your first book "Hard". But any creativity must have a motive, an inner necessity.
There was no one thought that such a project could be implemented. Just in Japan at the 2002 World Cup, people from Japanese publishing houses came up to me and suggested writing a biography. Well, I, in principle, did not think long and agreed. Then the hard days began, when I dictated the material 2 hours before each ice show (100 performances in the cities of America every day). Then I had to read all this, check the facts, the dates. I sent a lot to my mother ... The hardest part is to write about my childhood, because I almost do not remember what happened in my life. Every day new people appear, new events, and it is very difficult to restore all this. I remember that it was 2-3 years ago, but I remember the past with difficulty ... When my father left the family, when they stole a carrot from the refrigerator (they lived in a communal apartment) - I do not remember this, I just needed it mom to restore events.
And is it not terrible to turn yourself inside the book inside out?
We are public. And the book is written really frankly, but without overcoming some human moral facets. The book gave me the opportunity to give answers to people on many questions of interest to them. Why I went to Tarasova, what happened next and how it happened. By the way, I never said that. I did not say that the President of the Federation approached me and said that my career would end if I left Mishin. I kept silent about the fact that I was happy to ride in those competitions where there were no Russians in the judges' brigade. Because the Russian judges who were behind me ... they just were not allowed into tournaments. All were for Zhenya Plushenko and Mishin. But Tatyana Tarasova is a strong and strong-willed person, and she always wanted her athletes to be well, and not to the President of the Federation. This book is generally devoted to my three women - mother, grandmother and Tatiana Anatolyevna. They played a huge role in my life.
What further development of your undertakings?
I just stick to this point of view: whatever you do, you should at least roughly understand what you are doing and try to do it as best as possible. Otherwise, there is no sense. I know that I will not sit and write.
I like television and cinema. Now I'm doing a television series, its working title is "Hot Ice". This genre is interesting to me, and there is much to learn. Acting is very similar to mastery on ice, these two things are similar. And one helps me and pushes to a higher level in another. Therefore, it is TV, cinema music. I like to expand in this regard. As for the song I sang along with Vika Daineko, this was the first step. It was certainly awkward and scary. And now I'm going to work on the vocals.
Vika said that she would do my vocals, like Sasha Savelyeva. But at the moment the main job is figure skating. And in this period of time I have more work than after the Olympic Games.
It's hard of course, but it saves that there are people who go to the factory to work, it's hard for them. But my work is still more creative.
Do you have favorite images on the ice?
I never distinguish anyone in my life. I like everything in my program. I am generally calm in this respect man. Today I eat potatoes, tomorrow - herring, the day after tomorrow - sushi. I also like any program. Whichever way you take the image, you have to get used to it, you have to roll it out, to understand it in your own way. And no matter what exactly you are doing on the ice at the moment - playing a serious drama or kayesh cheerful dance.
In fact, what makes a person professional? Not when he goes in one direction, but he can, like a chameleon, adjust himself - then one, then another, then the third. As for life, I was often asked the question: "What do you like more-CSC or Spartak, or Whitney Houston or Alexander Savelyev?" .... Of course it's hard here ... of course Sasha ...
I can not single out, emphasize. Every person has both positive and negative sides. And the most important thing is that it's good to take for yourself to improve yourself first.
Do athletic qualities help in life?
Of course. All life is a complex process, its meaning is in overcoming. Therefore, the book, by the way, is called "Head-on". Sometimes you need to gather before the next jump. Athletes are easier, they have hardening. That in sport, that in life, the strongest survive.
I listen to you and compare with a shark, whose life goes on in motion, and if she stops, she will die.
You can certainly quit everything ... But I'm just used to the movement, to some sort of move. By the end of the second week of vacation, I'm already looking for something to do. At the same time I have my own transport company in St. Petersburg, I sell real estate in other countries.
And it happens as always - then silence, then everything falls into one heap. At me now approximately such period. Of course, it's hard, but when you go to bed, you realize that so many things have happened. Live in such a constant adrenaline, when there is always a small risk - it's cool.
Do you have the awareness that you are a Petersburger?
If I stayed in St. Petersburg until I was 27, and then decided to go to Moscow, then probably my opinion would be different. I love and adore this city, but I left and started moving when I was 12-13 years old, I lived in America for 6 years. I'm a supporter of faster cities, more modern ones. I can not say that I'm in the soul of a Muscovite, but I'm much more interested in Moscow. And I seriously think that Moscow is the capital of the whole world at the moment. All the money is there. When I come to St. Petersburg, there is a feeling that I came for a city, and life stops. I like it when there's a bustle around, energetic movement. Maybe in the future, when I have a family, I'll look at the whole situation differently ...
What should a woman be like to see Alexey Yagudin pay attention to her?
We meet then by clothes, and we live with the inner world. Therefore to me the most important thing, that at the person inside.
How do you remove fatigue?
At us in Russia generally drink. But alcohol is an enemy, with it everything slows down, and with it you never have time to do anything. I, for example, like to lie in a bath with salt, there are all kinds of flavors. And just at least one day's sleep - that's very helpful.
I do not know when Alexei Yagudin will realize this idea - just sleep. Watching him from the side, I began to wonder, but does he rest at all. All the time the dynamics - interviews, meetings with readers, performances in the "Ice Age" (even during the show in the secret alleyways of the dressing rooms, Alex does not lose time and in free minutes plays with Kostomarov in the ping-pong). But what you believe implicitly, is the fact that in figure skating his whole life. Such plasticity, love, dedication and courage is not often observed. In this, probably, he is all, Alexei Yagudin, - in the traffic ahead!