Quotes By Billy Corgan

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

We've turned into a whining society.

I'm a green-tea guy.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

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.

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

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

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

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Most great records really start with the drums.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

It just doesn't work without the others.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I realize I'm a mirror.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

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 don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I tend to be reactionary.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.