Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

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 human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

In union there is strength.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

Any of these moments, you can turn it all around.

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.

Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.

Change is automatic, Progress is Not!

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out