I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

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

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.

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

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 to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

It just doesn't work without the others.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I think the Jonas Brothers are really sexy in America.

I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

And I hope we get the chance to play Warped Tour. That would be really nice.

I think a big dream would be to do something with Aerosmith or someone like that.

It's hard to do 'Monsoon' again and again and again.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

Especially as newcomers, it's really important to have the Internet, where people can talk about you and listen to your music.

In L.A., there's In-N-Out burgers. I'm the biggest fan of that.

I get the most girls, but I'm not the type that actually likes to mess around.

We just write about the stuff that happens to us.

It's the most important thing, that you're happy with your music and your style. You can't create success and you can't create a successful band.