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.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.