In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

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?

Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.

I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.

I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

True success is obeying God.

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.