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

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.