I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people there lack the intelligence to know what they are seeing, so that's why the UFO's go there.

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

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

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job