Quotes from Billy Corgan

We'll crucify the insincere tonight

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.

I realize I'm a mirror.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.