Billy Corgan Rock Quotations

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

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.

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.

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.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

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.

Interviewer: "If you weren't a rock star..." Billy: "I wouldn't be wearing these silver pants.