Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

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?

sometimes we doubt the truth in the face of this earth, but not to worry. the important thing is to follow your conscience to walk in the truth

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Despair often breeds disease.

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn’t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.