Talking about the album cover, which shows a sinking Statue of Liberty, Corgan says that they wanted the art to resemble propaganda. And while he has stayed away from overt politics, noting "we don't play that game," he says that it is currently "a really weird time" when political stories are given equal coverage to "Paris [Hilton] going to Burger King." Speaking of Hilton, Corgan says that at one point the concept for the cover was the "holy trinity" of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris but they couldn't pull it off. However, he did personally take the picture of Hilton on the cover of the single for "Tarantula." He knew her previously and asked her to be involved.

Discussing the track "Bleeding The Orchid," Corgan says it was indirectly inspired by the death of Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley. "Alice In Chains was a band that I didn’t fully appreciate in the early ‘90’s because we were all sort of competitors, and they were kind of more metal….and I wasn’t man enough to appreciate them." The song is about “what a lot of us have been through from the Gen X bands…Jimmy’s a father now, Courtney [Love]’s on round 17 of drama….it was a bit of a cost assessment of a song about what it meant to sort of go through that."

Also, Corgan and Chamberlin are now soliciting questions from their fans via YouTube. The pair solicit questions in a video clip you can watch here.

Zeitgeist arrives in stores this Tuesday, July 10.