In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.