I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

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

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

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.