Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

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?

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.