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That's The Great Thing About Rock N' Roll: The Myth Is Ultimately More Important Than The Reality. And That's What You Learn - You Just Learn To Go With The Mythology.

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That's The Great Thing About Rock N' Roll: The Myth Is Ultimately More Important Than The Reality. And That's What You Learn - You Just Learn To Go With The Mythology.

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Difficult Situations

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We've Turned Into A Whining Society.

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It Seems To Me That References To Bands Like Black Sabbath And Led Zeppelin Meant More To Me A Year Ago And All Those Old Things Are Totally Losing Importance.

I'm Attacking The Pomposity That Says This Is More Valuable Than That. I'm Sick Of That.

The Reason I Don't Play Any Of The Old Songs Is Because I Really Honor My Old Band, And I Think That Those Songs Are Best Served Within The Context Of That Band.

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What Has Gone On In My Childhood, And The Personal Problems That We've Had In The Band, Have Given A Lot Of People Hope. (it Shows) If You Keep Your Nose Pointed Straight You Can Actually Get Somewhere -- To A Happy Place.

The Music Business - And I Guess You Could Say Any Artistic Endeavor - Usually Rewards Those Who Are On The Leading Edge Of Where Everything Is Going, But You Can't Be Too Far.

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The Desire To Hit A Big Home Run Is Dominating The Music Business.

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Twenty-eight To 31 Is The Tough Period. You Have To Be Really Careful Because It's So Cataclysmic, So Life-altering. People Do Really Dramatic Things Like Get Married, Or They'll Get Divorced. Your Chances Of Committing Suicide Go Way Up. It's Basically Psychic Death. You See The Signs Of It Around 27, And You're Still On The Out-end Of It Around 31. Everyone I've Talked To Who's Gone Through That And Come Out The Other Side Walks Out Of It Like, "my Life Is Great".

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The Things I'm Guided To Do Are Really Strange To Me.

I Have A Musical Ancestry As Much As I Have A Family Ancestry. Honoring Those Ancestors Gives You Access To A Greater Source Of Appreciation And Information Than You Would Have If You Were Just Going On Your Own Ego System.

Personally, I Think Jesus Would Like Better Bands.

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Time Is Never Time At All. You Can Never Ever Leave Without Leaving A Piece Of Youth. And Our Lives Are Forever Changed. We Will Never Be The Same. The More You Change, The Less You Feel.

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Heavy Metal Is A Universal Energy -- It's The Sound Of A Volcano. It's Rock, It's Earth Shattering. Somewhere In Our Primal Being We Understand.

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Do I Belong In The Conversation About The Best Artists In The World? My Answer Is Yes, I Do.

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Intoxicated With The Madness I'm In Love With My Sadness Bullshit Beggars, Enchanted Kingdom Fashion Victims Through Their Charcoaled Teeth

There Are People Out There Who Are Older Who Are Cool. I Want That.

I Started Thinking That If Post Modernism Is About People Opening Up All Their Skeletons, I'm Going The Other Way. I Don't Want Anyone Knowing Anything About Me Anymore.

Sometimes People Just Like Being Around Each Other, And Good Things Come Out Of That.

You Have To Keep Adapting To The Times. If You Kind Of Go With It, It Can Kind Of Fun.

Even If You Don't Believe In God, Exploring Fully The Idea Of A God Or Gods Should Pose No Threat To You.

The Killer In Me Is The Killer In 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.

The Great Thing About Rock N' Roll Is, If You Want To Fight - Like, Fight The System, Fight The Man, Fight The Government, Fight The People In Front Of You - It's Don Quixote All Over Again. You're Really Chasing Windmills.

Destruction Is A True Sign Of Devotion. As I Always Tell My Girlfriend When She Threatens To Kill Me. 'you Should Kill Me And It Would Tell Me That You Love Me.

I Think I Kind Of Approached Music With This Sort Of, Like, Weird Thing Where I Kinda Set Myself Up Where I Could Kinda Be Myself But Not Really. I Kinda Had A Backdoor Out. So If You Criticized Me, I Kinda Had My Defenses Working. And The Problem Is That Some People Seize On That As Inauthenticity, Which Is Understandable. So That's Painful Because It's Not That You're Being Inauthentic...there's A Difference Between Being A Poseur And Being Someone Who's So Emotionally Challenged They're Kind Of Just Doing Their Best To Show You What They've Got.

I've Been Too Productive For Too Long, And Despite What Anybody Wants To Strip Away From Me, I Am Influential. I Am.

Been There, Done That, Seen It, Heard It, Pissed On It.

Been There Done That

I Don't Wanna Play This Kind Of Cartoon Character Anymore.

My Mother And I Parting Company At Four Years Old Is A Recurring Theme; Although It's Not Symbolically Necessarily Present, It's Present In All My Relationships.

For A 6-foot-3 Guy With No Hair And A Whiny Voice, I've Done All Right.

Saturn Return Is Just The Return Of Your Planets To Their Original Position.

I Feel Like I'm Always Fighting Not To Repeat Myself.

Always Fighting

I Want People To See Me Happy.

I Never Wanted To Leave The Smashing Pumpkins. That Was Never The Plan.

My Step-mom Would Tell Me That She Would Get Complaints From Adults That I Stared Too Much At Them.

I Was Playing Heavy Metal When I Was 18. I Had To Evolve Out Of That Into An Alternative Consciousness About What It Meant To Change The Way I Played Guitar, And The Kind Of Songs, And The Subject Matter, And Singing About Child Abuse, And All This Stuff. I Had To Come From Somewhere, And I Had To Take Chances To Do That.

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 Much To Blame For The Break-up. 'soma' Is Based On The Idea That A Love Relationship Is Almost The Same As Opium: It Slowly Puts You To Sleep, It Soothes You, And Gives You The Illusion Of Sureness And Security. Very Deceivable.

There's Nothing Wrong With Technology. It's When Technology Is The Story And Not The Artist, That's The Problem.

There's A Difference Between Being A Poseur And Being Someone Who's So Emotionally Challenged They're Kind Of Just Doing Their Best To Show You What They've Got.

Rock & Roll Is Not About What You Play, It's About How You Play It.

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I Never Seemed To Fit In. But It Made Me Try To Strive For Things Ten Times Harder.

I Grew Up In The Suburbs And Basically Associate The Suburbs With Cultural Death.

I Didn't Find Jesus. He's Been There The Whole Time.

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