To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

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?

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

Mankind’s assignment is to extend the kingdom of love throughout the earth

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

Mmm, tastes like hepatitis!

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.