First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.