Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.