The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.