The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

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

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

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.