Quotes By Billy Corgan

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

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.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

I'm a green-tea guy.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

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.

I don't want to be 25 again.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

It just doesn't work without the others.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Most great records really start with the drums.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

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.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

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.

I realize I'm a mirror.

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.