I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

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

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

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.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.