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.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.

I like my home and I like the nature.