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.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.