My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
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.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland