A TEXAS INTERVIEW
by Tom Geddie
Mar 2000

I just had the pleasure of doing a phone interview with songwriter-sculptor-painter Terry Allen, and want to share just three of his quotes about creativity:
        * "The act is as much destruction as it is construction. Most work of any integrity or consequence happens in the dark. You are constantly at war with your own habits, the way you see things. And you have to get
through to the question mark zone."
        * "One of the wonderful things is, once you put it out there, it's totally what it is. It's not about you, or the audience, or anything else. You make this thing be what it is. That's kinda your job as an artist. That
doesn't mean somebody who comes from another circumstance won't see something you never thought about in it. And all that is legitimate"
        * "Writing is the hardest of all. I guess I have more of a southern literary attitude, like Flanery OConnor saying she sat for three hours every day no matter what happened -- even if she stared at the wall --
because she wanted to be there if it came."

Terry Allen will be one of many performers at the Roxy Gordon Memorial Concert on Sunday, May 14 from 2-10 pm at the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas. Among the others: The Gourds, Pleasant Grove, Richard Dobson, Tony Lane, The Texanna Dames, Michael J. Martin, Tommy Hancock, Wes McGhee, Kathleen Hudson, and The Ackermans. Proceeds will help establish a scholarship fund for songwriters.  For more information call Robert Trammell at 214-821-9671.

Tom Geddie, ABC
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Another interview by Jason Gross (May 1998)

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