Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

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?

Joy is love exalted

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

Being joyful is about staying positive when everything else seems to fail.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

Music brings life to my soul.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.