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

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

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

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.