In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

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

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

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

First of all I listen to music. I like music.