I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

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?

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

I will never feel successful.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep...

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.