You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

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.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.