A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.