Billy Corgan Want Quotations

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

I want people to see me happy.

I want to make great songs.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.