To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

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

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.