I like my home and I like the nature.

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?

Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.