I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

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?

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.

Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.