Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

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?

People who feel pain, that’s common. Someone who uses pain to create, this is an Artist.

Oh no, was I to be one of those girls who gets attacked by a jealous girlfriend?

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.