There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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?

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

I have a vision, I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

McEnroe respects one guy -- himself, and that's it.

Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.