At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think I kind of approached music with this sort of, like, weird thing where I kinda set myself up where I… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what i choose is my choice What's a boy supposed to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image