You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

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?

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.

When are you at your most defenseless?

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

Don't be entitled - earn your success.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.