Billy Corgan

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

— Billy Corgan

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

— Billy Corgan

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else…

— Billy Corgan

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

— Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

— Billy Corgan

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

— Billy Corgan

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit…

— Billy Corgan

I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater…

— Billy Corgan

Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

— Billy Corgan

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever…

— Billy Corgan

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because…

— Billy Corgan

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just…

— Billy Corgan

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the…

— Billy Corgan

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox…

— Billy Corgan

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

— Billy Corgan

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.

— Billy Corgan

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great…

— Billy Corgan

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

— Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

— Billy Corgan

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

— Billy Corgan

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

— Billy Corgan

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

— Billy Corgan

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

— Billy Corgan

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

— Billy Corgan

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

— 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'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens.

— Billy Corgan

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

— Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

— Billy Corgan

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

— Billy Corgan

We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.

— Billy Corgan

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence

— Billy Corgan

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

— Billy Corgan

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

— Billy Corgan

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

— Billy Corgan

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

— Billy Corgan

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

— Billy Corgan

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

— Billy Corgan

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

— Billy Corgan