Billy Corgan Quotes

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

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

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

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

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

The Killer in me is the Killer in you.

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

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

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.

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

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

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

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

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

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

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.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

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

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

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

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

I work differently than most people.

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

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

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

Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.