I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

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 think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.

We are all trying to get the exact style of ouuselves.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.