I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

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?

I don’t have all the answers I need yet, and I’m not ready to give up until I completely understand the purpose I serve and what it is I’m supposed to do.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.

Golf is played with the arms.