The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

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?

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

Create a tomorrow that has more than just one day in it.

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you.""I've given up on you, " he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

Girls need to be strong and know how to stand up for themselves. Definitely having friends is a big part of it, so that they can help you through that, and a strong family.

It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

As a new artist you should ignore trends at all costs.