Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

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?

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal, ’ it should be ‘normal’.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?

Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.

I still love coming home, but home is where the heart is. I take those whom I love most with me. That's my number one. My number two is being ready.