Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

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?

A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so many great power pack man and women of God who lack wisdom.

You're Missing a hand." And you're missing a brain!

Youth is wasted on the young.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process we can give it to humans.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.