If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.