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

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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