Quotes By Billy Corgan

I still believe in my country.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

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.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

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'm a really honest person.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

We've turned into a whining society.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

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

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

I'm a bit weird.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.