Billy Corgan

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

“Music is your guide.”

“I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.”

“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“We've turned into a whining society.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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