Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

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 roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

You have to be different, great or first.

You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.