Quotes from Billy Corgan

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

I tend to be reactionary.

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

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

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Music is your guide.

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

Most great records really start with the drums.

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.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

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

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

Despite all my rageI am still just a rat in the cage.

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.

I'm a really honest person.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.