Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

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?

Dharma is something that one discovers, because one cannot create something that is already there.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.