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

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

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 write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s 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.