Quotes By Billy Corgan

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

I work differently than most people.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

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.

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

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.