I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

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?

Everything diminishes and everything is destructible.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

May you find a sacred strength to fulfill our dreams in the coming year.

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.