I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

If you want to get richer quicker, then solve bigger problems!

I make funny shows and put a positive message out there, showing people who have body image issues that... you don't have to look a certain way.

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.