I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

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?

Love and learn from everyone, but follow your heart, and your inner conviction.

Memory lane is not a road I like to go down. But that's the only way to remember not to forget.

The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

I wanna be somebody. I mean, I am somebody. I just wanna be a rich somebody.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.