My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

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?

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.