“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
“Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.”
NatureAll Quotes by Billy Corgan
“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”
Peace“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”
Music“One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.”
Communication“I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.”
Family“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.”
Success“Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.”
Strength“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 was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”
Cool“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“There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.”
Cool“If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.”
Fear“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.”
Death“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“I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.”
Death“A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.”
Funny“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“In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.”
Family“Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.”
Trust“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