I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.