Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

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

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.