“Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we’re attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.”
– Billy Corgan
“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.”
– Billy Corgan
“Jesus teaches us to forgive and I’ve got to trust him on that one.”
– Billy Corgan
“There’s nothing wrong with technology. It’s when technology is the story and not the artist, that’s the problem.”
– Billy Corgan
“For someone who’s had the level of success I’ve had, there’s been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.”
– Billy Corgan
“Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard’s concept of what success is but it doesn’t mean anything.”
– Billy Corgan
“Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.”
– Billy Corgan
“I’m sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.”
– Billy Corgan
“We’ve turned into a whining society.”
– Billy Corgan
“You’ve got to be ready to be in a great relationship.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”
– Billy Corgan
“I like my home and I like the nature.”
– Billy Corgan
“Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now.”
– Billy Corgan
“The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.”
– Billy Corgan
“When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.”
– Billy Corgan
“You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.”
– Billy Corgan
“To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it’s really fun.”
– Billy Corgan
“Music is your guide.”
– Billy Corgan
“I’m prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I’m playing music that I believe in.”
– Billy Corgan
“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that’s gonna be unpopular.”
– Billy Corgan
“In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“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.”
– Billy Corgan
“The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.”
– Billy Corgan