Quotes from Billy Corgan

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

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

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

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

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.