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

"Life is everything and nothing all at once."

"I’m trying to figure out how to take the instrument and have it still sound like a guitar, but put you in a different…"

"I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whateve…"

"It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as …"

"...Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I …"

"There's a really a cold, cold side to my personality that I'm not really comfortable with. I'm constantly dealing wit…"

"About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, becaus…"

"The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playgr…"

"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. …"