Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

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?

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

I knew my transformation was complete when Dr.Keyes asked, "How are you feeling today, Tandy?" and I responded "I'm not

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.