I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

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?

A passionate person says “over my dead body, I will never give up” and you ask him why, he answers “because I have found something not only to live on, but something to die for”!

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you!

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.