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

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.