In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

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?

Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!

The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.