We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.