More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

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?

Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

Time is the tyrant of the body.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.