Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.