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

I don't mean this in any sort of trite way, ... but the music has really been the thing that has healed us over and over again. It is the thing that has held us together and taught us about each other.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

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

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

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.