Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

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?

Change of heart comes from the Creator.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

You have every right to have your views. But don't let those views get in the way of indisputable facts!

You can't hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.