The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

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.

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.

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

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.