I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

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?

Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil

The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.