Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

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.