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

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.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

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

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.

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