We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

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

We've turned into a whining society.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.