Most great records really start with the drums.

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?

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.

Every elected official on this planet should understand - don't play with our children, don't do it.

If I think, I am lost.

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.