Quotes By Billy Corgan

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

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.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

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.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

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

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

Music is your guide.

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

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'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.