If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

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?

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

An adaptive mind has better learning capability.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.