Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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?

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

I spend one evening with a handsome merman, and I become a silly mermaid with a crush.

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

I don't want to be either partial or impartial.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.