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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

I've been to Bali twice and Marrakech twice. I thought Vienna was great. I will take girlfriends to places they've never been before.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.