If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.