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

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

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