Thinking Quotes by Billy Corgan

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

— Billy Corgan

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

— Billy Corgan

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

— Billy Corgan

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

— Billy Corgan

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

— Billy Corgan

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

— Billy Corgan

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

— Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

— Billy Corgan

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

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best…

— Billy Corgan

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played,…

— 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…

— Billy Corgan

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

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

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

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

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

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

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not…

— 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…

— Billy Corgan

I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and…

— Billy Corgan

Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on…

— Billy Corgan

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

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

I think I kind of approached music with this sort of, like, weird thing where I kinda set myself up where I…

— Billy Corgan

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

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

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

— Billy Corgan

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

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make…

— Billy Corgan

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

I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make…

— Billy Corgan

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

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

— Billy Corgan

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave…

— Billy Corgan

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

— Billy Corgan

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be…

— Billy Corgan

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they…

— Billy Corgan

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

— Billy Corgan

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to…

— Billy Corgan