And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

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

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.