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'm pretty proud of everything I've done.

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.

I'm not Zappa, you know. I'm just Terry.

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.

You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good.

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.