As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

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?

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

I love recording music.

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.