I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

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've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.