"I am a very simple man, and I have very simple tastes."

"I have been called the 'Picasso of music.' I myself have never said that. I have always preferred to be myself."

"What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance."

"That is why I compulsively let myself be carried away by external commitments."

"I am not interested in 'expressing' anything. I am interested in building something."