Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

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

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

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.

In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

I work differently than most people.