I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

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

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

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

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.