I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
All I can go on is my own value system.
We've turned into a whining society.
My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.