It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

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.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.