Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

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.

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?

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

The mountain was in labour and Jove was afraid but it brought forth a mouse.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

I have taken my children all over the world to see things but I've also made a point that they need to give something back for being so blessed.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.