3 December 2020 Billy Corgan To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan 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.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we’re attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan If I have resistance to something, it means there’s something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that’s gonna be unpopular.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I’m really a jock.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan A good artist is willing to die many times over. What’s funny is, I’ve died so many times.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan 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.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard’s concept of what success is but it doesn’t mean anything.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan For someone who’s had the level of success I’ve had, there’s been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That’s what critics can’t put their finger on.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan One thing I’ve learned to appreciate as I’ve gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
