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.

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.

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?

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

Like flowers to a bee, feelings are the silent language of the heart.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

What you do daily determines what you become permanently

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.