It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

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 listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.