It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

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?

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.