Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

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?

Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...

Bitterness is a broken spirit.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

The truth is that problems won't just go away.

Let's create, not destroy. Let's believe and not doubt.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Kevin refilled my plastic cup with more box wine. I smiled thanks. Kevin smiled welcome. Jake kicked my ankle.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.