Quotes By Billy Corgan

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.