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I write music this is my profession and I do it for a living. I live decently I still do not make too great compromises with my self, meaning that I haven’t yet gone commercial. When I don’t have a muse I have my professional instinct. And I adapt it and make it work because the play has a term until which it should be ready to go on stage. And I cannot afford to delay it. I believe that if they are still calling me then I still do the job. The time is the criteria, it does not forgive and it will tell. The time has its laws.

What makes you go back to Bulgaria?

My family. It is something very strong. I had to leave at that time. I had three opportunities and I chose Greece because it is close. This was the first reason besides the sea. The sea was what gave the final touch in the decision.

And how did your life change since you came to live in Greece?

Here I have people who think like me and I also have them in Bulgaria. I have my environment of unanimity. A didn’t change anything because everybody wonders ho come “they are different”…It is not true because when you find your environment you don’t change. And this is the most valuable thing. Because the emigrant is always in a difficult situation and exaggerates this coldness, inside of him he has psychological problems because he cannot find his environment. I had some friends even before I came, who were my friends in the real meaning of the word. We were sharing everything and we had the same ideas. That is why I have no problems. I might have a financial problem, but not a creative one. I do what I can with the people I want to do it with.

Because we spoke a lot about the television and the commercialization, have you ever worked in the television?

In Bulgaria not only that I worked in the television, but during the socialist times I was in the list of the names of people who were taking the highest salaries in the television. I was in the top ten. And at that time everything was regulated, there was no free market, but there was a table. I was working mainly in children shows. I was working for Kliment Dachev – bate Klimo who was drawing and singing, he was making about 100 - 200 movies a year. I was very deep into the television. At that time the television was very much expurgated. Things were passing a hundred editors. However you shouldn’t think that nothing was created at that time. The memory of the classics has to always be remembered through their works.

And just for the end of this interesting conversation when looking ahead tell me what will be your next project.

I work all the time, however I wouldn’t like to go into details. We want with the theater of satire to put on stage the play “The clouds” by Aristophan and to bring it here to be performed in Irodio during the Athens festival. If this happens it will be done with Bulgarian actors, a Greek director, Greek choreographer, me, a Bulgarian artist – a mixed team. This will be very nice. It will show that we can live together at this placed called Balkans. Which has no boundaries already, however these boundaries shouldn’t only drop for the business, but the art should also overcome them.