I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

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

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

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

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