The minute you settle down and say, that’s it, I’m closing shop, I know what I am, then you’re a man, no longer a man-child. Is it really better to be a man-child than a man? I don’t know.
“I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, ‘You’ll come to a wall you won’t be able to get through.’ So I said, ‘I’ll beat my head against that wall.’”