Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

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?

Be a good human.

Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

You deserve a better life. You deserve a prosperous life. You deserve a positive life. You deserve to be liberated from all negativity. You deserve the best!

Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself.

Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The Universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe.

Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold. (on Michael Owen)

I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.