I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

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

I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.