I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

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?

Novels and gardens, " she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

You narrow hope when you define it.

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

Dr. Spock, who said, Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. Never got a dinner!