« This is how things are in the village. He says to me, "Hey Illir," he says. "Probably even Nano doesn’t have the kind of car you have," he says. I said, "I don’t care about Nano. I care about my hands." I said. "I don’t care if Nano has got a car or not." I personally don’t care. But I mean they see us as foreigners. Let me explain. Because there is also…I don’t know. Is it because we’ve gone abroad? You look different, even the body and your face change. If you go there [to Albania] and somebody sees you, he can tell that you’re a foreigner. »
« How do they see me? Like a bank!!! That’s how they see me! First of all they tell me I’ve gotten older. That I look terribly aged. [They tell me] that I’ve lost weight and they feel sorry for me. They feel sorry for me. And secondly, but this is the main thing. They see me as a bank. They think that the money in my wallet will never end!!!" »