If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

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?

See me just as I see you.

Carrying out our purpose as believers is God’s plan for our lives

Spirituality is strength of the spirit.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.