Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything..

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it..

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade..

Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food..

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote..

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It….

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs..

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad..

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage..

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but ….

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine..

I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the….

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creati….

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms..

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck..

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!.

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….

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. ….

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin..

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

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