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.
Billy Corgan
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.
Billy Corgan
You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don’t buy records. It’s about a hundred to one…Record companies, they don’t have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing… So… ‘Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that’ll market the record.’
Billy Corgan
I’m very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we’ve kind of lost our moral compass.
Billy Corgan
I don’t think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they’re fans because I’m a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
Billy Corgan
I don’t wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
Billy Corgan
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
Billy Corgan
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n’ roll.
Billy Corgan
Most people don’t know that wrestling came out of the circus.
Billy Corgan
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
Billy Corgan
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
Billy Corgan
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
Billy Corgan
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
Billy Corgan
All I can go on is my own value system.
Billy Corgan
I have a saying, which is, ‘Crazy is good for business.’ I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
Billy Corgan
Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
Billy Corgan
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
Billy Corgan
I’m sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
Billy Corgan
I think long and hard about what it is I’m actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don’t, I’m too all over the place.
Billy Corgan
The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I’m really a jock.
Billy Corgan
Even if you don’t believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
Billy Corgan
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we’re attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
Billy Corgan
I’m attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I’m sick of that.
Billy Corgan
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion – it kind of sticks with you.
Billy Corgan
I’d reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
Billy Corgan
When I’ve tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
Billy Corgan
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven’t seen for a long time.
Billy Corgan
I’m a bit weird.
Billy Corgan
The great thing about rock n’ roll is, if you want to fight – like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you – it’s Don Quixote all over again. You’re really chasing windmills.
Billy Corgan
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
Billy Corgan
My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let’s all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I’m not that kind of guy. It’s an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it’s not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
Billy Corgan
One thing I’ve learned to appreciate as I’ve gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
Billy Corgan
Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
Billy Corgan
I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn’t faze anybody anymore.
Billy Corgan
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that’s gonna be unpopular.
Billy Corgan
I don’t have to play by these rules or do these things… I can actually have my own kind of version.
Billy Corgan
It’s important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
Billy Corgan
Most great records really start with the drums.
Billy Corgan
James, that’s a bad situation. I’m not saying it’s not repairable, but it’s pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band… as far as I’m concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
Billy Corgan
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.
Billy Corgan
I feel like I’m always fighting not to repeat myself.
Billy Corgan
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn’t about anyone else.
Billy Corgan
You’ve got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
Billy Corgan
It’s a simple formula for me now, I don’t play any song I don’t want to play.
Billy Corgan
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
Billy Corgan
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Billy Corgan
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
Billy Corgan
More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, ‘OK, whaddya got?’ – no matter how many times you’ve proven it to them.
Billy Corgan
It just doesn’t work without the others.
Billy Corgan
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it’s a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There’s so much damage, there’s no way.
Billy Corgan
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
Billy Corgan
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
Billy Corgan
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
Billy Corgan