I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

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've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'

It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.