New York Is The Dream

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 Know Already The Music I Will Write. But The Words? I Have Not Yet Decided.

I Write Bars, For The Musicians, Because They Have To Be Together.

I Lived Under The Nazis And Under The Communists.

Well I Live In Vienna With My Wife And Son, And I Teach In Hamburg, There Will Be No Changes In That Respect.