I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

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?

Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime.

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

I love working with smart-funny people.