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.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.