My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

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?

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light.

There is no excuse for your failure

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

Because without such a reprieve we cannot pause and regroup and with the newfound strength go on to initiate that very change which is sorely needed by all.