“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
“One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.”
CommunicationAll Quotes by Billy Corgan
“I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.”
Music“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”
Movingon“A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.”
Funny“You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.”
Music“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's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.”
Technology“In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”
Music“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”
Cool“You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.”
Great“Music is your guide.”
Music“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”
Music“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“Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.”
Attitude“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“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“There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.”
Cool“To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.”
Music“Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.”
Nature“When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.”
Music