Billy Corgan Quotes

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

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 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.

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

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

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

I want to make great songs.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

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

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

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

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

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

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

I'm not interested in pop art.

I realize I'm a mirror.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

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.

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

All I can go on is my own value system.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

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

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.

Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

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

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.