Quotes By Billy Corgan

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I realize I'm a mirror.

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.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I tend to be reactionary.

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

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