Quotes from Billy Corgan

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

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

I like my home and I like the nature.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

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.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

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.

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

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

We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.

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

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

We've turned into a whining society.

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

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