You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

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?

Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.