“Music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“If you're a desperate person, an insecure person, and go to such great lengths as to have a rock band to satiate those insecurities, something is not right.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“My parents were nowhere to be found. There's no getting around that. It definitely makes you go, "What is love?" They say they love me; love me means don't live with me. I don't understand. It's not the complete excuse, because I'm old enough now to understand certain things that maybe I couldn't be…”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“If you don't have good examples, you don't know what you're shooting for.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“If you don't have good examples, you don't know what you're shooting for.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“The tendency of most people is to be lazy and not pursue their dreams, to let life slip by. That's why people freak out when they're 40 and start buying Porsches.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com
“A lot of these bands have spent a lot more time worrying about what they look like in public, what their stature is than doing what they're supposed to be doing, what their fans would want them to do. Which is be the best band they can be.”— Billy Corgan, rollingstone.com