"I wish there were a moment when I could be both on stage and with my family, with my children. I could have created this condition, but the distance did not allow it. If I had started a family here, I would still have distanced myself from the stage. Family is more important to me than anything else."
Medianews.az reports that these words were said by singer Irada Ibrahimova in director Nail Naiboglu's YouTube project. The artist spoke about the changes that happened in her life after starting a family:
"I missed the stage. I have repeatedly admitted to myself that I missed the stage a lot. I am someone who should be on stage. I go up there with a light given by God, I belong on the stage. If I had expressed this then, my husband would have understood it differently. I always made him feel that I was happy here, that I was satisfied with my life. Because when he took me away and distanced me from the stage, he felt bad himself. My husband never forbade me from the stage. Stepping aside was my own choice."
Speaking about her children, Irada said that she does not try to be their friend:
"Irada is a mother, she cannot be a friend. They will have many friends, but a mother is one of a kind. There is a difference between being a carpenter and a gardener. I want to be a gardener. I don’t want them to share everything with me. There are things that will be shared and things that won’t. Now I also experience longing. I have a desire to be with my loved ones. I calm myself down, I soothe myself. I have my reasons. I wasn’t a child when I started a family." \\axsam.az