Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

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.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

You're too scared of what it means to feel anything that matters. You're scared to love, and you hide behind this mission to destroy the code.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

If Christ is not ALL to you he is NOTHING to you

Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour?

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.