If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

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 British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.

I'm really thirsty to go on tour! I love putting on a show. If the crowd ain't acting bougie, I love performing.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

We use intuition as a way to connect with our Divine Self.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.