“To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.”
Music
“A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.”
FunnyAll Quotes by Billy Corgan
“You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.”
Great“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.”
Death“When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.”
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“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.”
Music“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”
Music“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“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“I like my home and I like the nature.”
Home“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“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“In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”
Music“I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.”
Family“The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.”
Funny“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 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“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“Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.”
Trust“We've turned into a whining society.”
Society