I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole 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?

What we expect rarely occurs

Lies is lying the memory from the truth

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him

The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.