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 look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely…

— Billy Corgan

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

— Billy Corgan

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

— Billy Corgan

I'm a really honest person.

— Billy Corgan

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far…

— Billy Corgan

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

— 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

What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period…

— Billy Corgan

That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person…

— 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

We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

— Billy Corgan

Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

— Billy Corgan

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series…

— Billy Corgan

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

— Billy Corgan

Music is your guide.

— 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

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

— 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

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading…

— 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

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and…

— Billy Corgan

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

— Billy Corgan

The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody…

— 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