I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

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

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.

I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I'm so happy with, she's been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I've been always very influenced by Japan. Since I guess the 70's or so. I've come to appreciate so much of their culture.

I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.