The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

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 think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!