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

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

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

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

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.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

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's already there.

I want people to see me happy.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I'm a really honest person.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.