Quotes By Billy Corgan

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

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.

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.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

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

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

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

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

I'm not interested in pop art.

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

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