For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.