When I Was Younger I Was Completely

I Lived Under The Nazis And Under The Communists.

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

My Grandfather Was Not A Musician But He Was An Artist - A Painter, A Decorative Painter.

For The Past Ten Years I Have Had No Financial Problems.

Now There Is No Taboo; Everything Is Allowed. But One Cannot Simply Go Back To Tonality, It’s Not The Way. We Must Find A Way Of Neither Going Back Nor Continuing The Avant-garde. I Am In A Prison: One Wall Is The Avant-garde, The Other Wall Is The Past, And I Want To Escape.