Billy Corgan Quotes - Page 9

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.

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

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.

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

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.

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

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.