Billy Corgan Quotes

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

IntoxicatedWith the madnessI'm in love withMy sadnessBullshit beggars, enchanted kingdomFashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

Despite all my rageI am still just a rat in the cage.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.