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.

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.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.

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 have to be a success. I can just try.