For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

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?

God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.

He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.