Quotes from Billy Corgan

I'm not interested in pop art.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

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

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

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

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

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

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while 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

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

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

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

Pink ribbon scars That never forget I've tried so hard To cleanse these regrets My angel wings Were bruised and restrained My belly stings

I wanted more than life could ever grant

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what i choose is my choice What's a boy supposed to do? The killer in me is the killer in you My love I send this smile over to you

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

That life can change, that we're not stuck in vain...