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

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.

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.

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

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.