There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

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?

Your response to adversity is what positions you for promotion

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

No family is perfect, and that's true. None of us are.

Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.