“I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.”
Business
“We've turned into a whining society.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Billy Corgan
“To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.”
Music“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.”
Death“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”
Music“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.”
Fear“You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.”
Great“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.”
Hope“The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.”
Funny“There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.”
Cool“I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.”
Music“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.”
Success“I like my home and I like the nature.”
Home“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.”
God“A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.”
Funny“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”
Peace“If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.”
Fear“I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.”
Family“Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.”
Truth“Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.”
Trust“To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.”
Music