Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.