If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.
— Billy Corgan
It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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 do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.
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 any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.'
Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.
I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.
More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
Most great records really start with the drums.
I don't want to be a dead hero.
Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
You're in a band 24 hours a day.
I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.
I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.
If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
I work differently than most people.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!
I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
I realize I'm a mirror.
