The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

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?

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.