Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

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?

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?