The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

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

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.