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

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

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.

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

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock