If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

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?

When you find a best friend, you become two flowers blooming from the same bud.

God knows everything that happened in your life

Excuses are the death of us!

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.

Hate is such a luxurious emotion it can only be spent on one we love.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

Always speak the truth.

People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.