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

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

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

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.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

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

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.

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

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

I'm a green-tea guy.

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

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

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

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

It just doesn't work without the others.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

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

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

I want to make great songs.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

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

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

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

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

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.

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

All I can go on is my own value system.

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain ...

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

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

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I'm a really honest person.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why
there was just a presence between the four people or something.

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

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

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

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

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

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

The Killer in me is the Killer in you.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

I tend to be reactionary.

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

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

I work differently than most people.

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

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

I don't want to be 25 again.

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

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

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.

I want people to see me happy.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

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

I'm a bit weird.