For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

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?

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.