Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, itโs not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.