When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

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?

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Don’t judge based on what you see, judge based on what you know, because the two are rarely similar.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.

From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.