I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with t….

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed..

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how t….

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any mone….

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens..

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore..

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 ….

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness..

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became l….

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in colle….

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world ….

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what t….

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your ….

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without..

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left..

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it..

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there..

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media..

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 prov….

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue..

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets..