Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

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?

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but is connected to something that has already been.