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

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

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

I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.

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

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.