Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

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?

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.