I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.

You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

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.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.