Quotes By Billy Corgan

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

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

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

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

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

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

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

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

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I don't want to be a dead hero.

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.

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

All I can go on is my own value system.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I still believe in my country.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

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

I'm a really honest person.