Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

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?

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Freedom is never granted it is won.

There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?