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 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?

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?

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.

Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.