I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

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.

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

I'd love to do music for films.

Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.

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.