We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

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?

You have already lost if you are always fearful of losing everything.

So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever

...you never knew anybody completely. Not even yourself.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

It's not finished until it's documented.