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.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.