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.

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

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

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.

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.