You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.

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

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

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

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic