My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.