At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

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?

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Without challenge we become too comfortable with life.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.