In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

If I practice I'll really alienate people.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

Where does Terry live? Somewhere deep inside. So I just let that come out and try to make something out of it without worrying about techniques or rules or any of that stuff. Just do it, you know. As long as it doesn't burn or get deleted, you know, then somebody will find it someday and I will have left something that I think is beautiful.

I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.