I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.