You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

Everybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned factory to create those things so that they can keep the prices down.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.