My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at 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?

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

That's all I want- to do no harm.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.