I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

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 woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

Without craziness, there is no courage.

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.