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

Everything about life makes me lonely.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.