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

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.