Billy Corgan And Quotations

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

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.

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.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

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.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.