“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.”
Fear
“When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.”
MusicAll Quotes by Billy Corgan
“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”
Music“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“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“I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.”
Family“There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.”
Cool“Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.”
Nature“If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.”
Fear“One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.”
Communication“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“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.”
Death“To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.”
Music“Music is your guide.”
Music“I'm not interested in pop art.”
Art“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“In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”
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“A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.”
Funny“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