All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

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.

I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.

In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

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

I just want to make music on the drums.

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.