Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

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

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

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