However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

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.

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

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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

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.