The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

Everybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned factory to create those things so that they can keep the prices down.

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.