If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

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.

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?

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 feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

It’s only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it’s totality, that we realize that love is everywhere

His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

When you're losing, you see what your team is made of.

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.