The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

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?

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.