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

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

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

There's many possibilities for anything.

I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again.

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.