I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

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

I don't use old music.

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.

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