There is some limit to finding, always, new things. It's rather impossible.

Traveling, talking to people, and rehearsing, I'm always finding new ideas. If I stay in one place, maybe I won't have so many ideas.

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with the history of war. But this was my childhood. War was the main subject, and also in our family.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some kind of synthesis, some musical language which will allow us just to write music.