Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

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?

Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.

Love as if you were created by the universe just to love.

Always think in circles to get your ideas around

Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.