Quotes By Billy Corgan
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
Billy Corgan
I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
Billy Corgan
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
Billy Corgan
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
Billy Corgan
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
Billy Corgan
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.
Billy Corgan
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
Billy Corgan
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
Billy Corgan
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.
Billy Corgan
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
Billy Corgan
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
Billy Corgan
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
Billy Corgan
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
Billy Corgan
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
Billy Corgan