Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

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?

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

Meditation has really helped with keeping my center.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.