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

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

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.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

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.