Quotes by Billy Corgan

“Im not going to die glamorously. Ill probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.”

“You cant be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.”

“Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow.”

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

“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”

“In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”

“[According to reports from Australia, one fan shouted from the stage] play some Pumpkins ... Can I live my life for today?”

“Its my role as an artist to basically destroy the obvious and recreate the obvious, to put it back together into a form that maybe you wouldnt have considered, ... Im not into making things unimaginable.”

“I dont mean this in any sort of trite way, ... but the music has really been the thing that has healed us over and over again. It is the thing that has held us together and taught us about each other.”

“Are you all ready to have a rockin mashed potato time?”

“Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it up until he starts to make a funny face, then we turn it up about ten notches higher than that.”

“Interviewer: If you werent a rock star...Billy: I wouldnt be wearing these silver pants.”

“For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, Ive done alright.”

Ive always been spiritual but Ive never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. Its hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God

IntoxicatedWith the madnessIm in love withMy sadnessBullshit beggars, enchanted kingdomFashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

Despite all my rageI am still just a rat in the cage.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

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.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

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