You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

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 leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

Decadence is wonderful.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.