A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

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?

Nothing is more compelling than the power of choice. You can choose good over evil and right over wrong. Choose right!

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.