I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

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

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.