Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

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?

You only know there is love and you feel beloved when you share, when you're gasping for air.You only know you are living and every moment you were longing for air.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

I'm not independently wealthy.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.