Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

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 I am looking for inspiration, then I read the religious scriptures.

Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.