My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

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.