I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able to play.

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

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.

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 feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

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