Billy Corgan Quotes

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

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

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.

I want people to see me happy.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

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.

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 didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

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

You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

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

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.

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

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

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

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

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

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

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

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

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

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

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

I like my home and I like the nature.

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

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

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

The Killer in me is the Killer in you.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

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

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

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

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

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