I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

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?

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

May the star of Bethlehem shine in your path.