I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

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?

Do not just accept anything without questioning.

Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

There is no substitute for knowledge.