I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.

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

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.