Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

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?

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

Obedience to the Lord is not only measured by how much we do for our Savior, but by how we obey Him when nobody is looking.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.