Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

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?

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

Good deeds are seeds of generosity.

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.

Every beginning is hard.

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.