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

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

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.