Quotes from Billy Corgan

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

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.'

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.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I work differently than most people.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

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

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

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

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.