If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

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 person feels lost without you, is your Soulmate.

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

When knowledge and education reach you, you have an whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

God wants you to bless Him because it’s the purpose you were originally created for.

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

Protect yourself from Muslim vampires by making your neck non-halal.