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

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

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.

In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.

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

I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

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