Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?