I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

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

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

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

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.