Irina likes music of the 60s and 70s.
Irina talks about her grandpa who died one day after Romania was freed and after spending 17 years in a Gulag.
Irina thinks it's wrong to dismiss the past from our consciousness.
Once she met Leonard Cohen in Paris and she was extremely excited. She had to tell him: "Hey, it's you why I started started to make music as a child in Canada then." And he just answered: "Oh sorry!"
Irina felt like being a freak her whole life. She was afraid of doing certain things. "Moreover I look strange, my nose is odd, I have too much hair and the like. In the story of American Vogue about Sean Lennon and me they said he was "logic" and I was "loony". But I have realized that this perfection of things is not necessary."
"Many people, above all stars, remain one single character their whole life long. They never change and do as if they knew all. I often stand in front of a mirror and ask myself: "Hello, that's me?" If you remain the character or figure you once wanted to be, that's like a death sentence."
"In the fashion world I'm different from being at home or in music. Not always people around me think that's terrific. They see things in me they don't expect but that's good! We all have our faults! .... I like people who doubt themselves. I often think: "Irina, pardon, you're supposed to be a model? Nobody will buy that!" But that's just in my head, I love that model thing, and just because I don't look like all others, I'm a model nevertheless."
"... I gave up my house in New York because I was too distracted there. I now have a small house in Canada where I write my songs. There I sit in Jeans with dog and guitar. And that's that."