Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

I want to make great songs.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and goods that they felt were more holistically [generated]. Which means the death of the old system which rewarded people for taking advantage of one another.