Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

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?

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.