I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

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?

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way.

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.