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

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anythi….

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication..

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps….

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band..

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that..

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin..

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become m….

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public]….

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo..

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was..

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

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. Tha….

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disill….

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time..

It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. ….

Life is everything and nothing all at once..

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

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun..

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present..

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me..