Life is everything and nothing all at once.

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?

To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up.

When you find yourself internally, you find what nourishes you from within. You lose that entitlement and anger when YOU deliver.

All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.

I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance.

A baby is a flower of hope, a song of eternity, and a promise of love and beauty of humanity.

Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.