Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

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.

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.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.